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Christophe Oleron departs from HSBC
18 July 2022 Hong Kong
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Oleron, global head of index, exchange-traded funds and synthetic prime trading, has departed from his role at HSBC after six years with the bank

FCA fines TJM for facilitating Solo Capital cum-ex trades
18 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The UK financial regulator has fined The TJM Partnership slightly more than £2 million for control failures linked to cum-ex trading and money laundering

OSTTRA releases service to digitise paper confirmations
15 July 2022 New York, London
Reporter: SFT

The paper digitisation service will launch this month for FX options and equity swaps and from September for fixed income options, commodity swaps and non-deliverable forwards

MarketAxess adds Ito to its repo team
14 July 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Steve Ito has joined the sales and business development repo team at MarketAxess to deliver workflow solutions in repo post-trade

deltaconX AG partners with Finnova AG Bankware
14 July 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The expanded partnership will offer clients a streamlined and fully integrated regulatory reporting solution

LCH EquityClear operationalises VaR margin model for cash equities
14 July 2022 France
Reporter: Holly Shelton

LCH EquityClear goes live with its Value at Risk margin model for all unsettled cash equity positions

ESMA issues third statement on LEI requirements of SFTR
14 July 2022 EU
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The European Securities and Markets Authority recognises a reporting implementation issue with Securities Financing Transactions, finding a significant number of issuers without an LEI

BNP Paribas and EDF ENR partner on renewable project
13 July 2022 France
Reporter: Holly Shelton

BNP Paribas has structured, tokenised and distributed a bond to refinance a solar energy project sponsored by EDF through its subsidiary EDF ENR

ESMA announces data reporting agencies that it will supervise directly
13 July 2022 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

Following publication of derogation criteria under the European Commission Delegated Act in March, ESMA has identified nine data reporting service providers that it will directly regulate

ION appoints Purassanta
13 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Holly Shelton

ION welcomes Carlo Purassanta as executive vice president for strategy and corporate development

EquiLend announce DLT solution to combat recon inefficiencies
13 July 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

The company’s new technology programme, 1Source, will use emerging technologies to address risk, cost and inefficiency in the securities finance industry, starting with eliminating reconciliation breaks and associated settlement fails

SDX announces tokenisation of equity shares
12 July 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Holly Shelton

Switzerland’s SIX Digital Exchange has announced the tokenisation of equity shares in a fully regulated CSD based on DLT