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Hong Kong and Mainland China announce Swap Connect mutual access programme for IRS markets
05 July 2022 Hong Kong China
Reporter: Bob Currie

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has announced a collaboration with the China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) and Shanghai Clearing House (SHCH) to create a mutual access programme for interbank interest rate swap (IRS) markets

Governing Council of ECB to adjust its collateral framework for climate initiative
04 July 2022 Germany
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

These measures, expected to enhance the ECB’s risk management practices, are designed in accordance with the Eurosystem’s primary objective of maintaining price stability

BNY Mellon adds Stephen O’Donnell to EMEA team
04 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

BNY Mellon has appointed Stephen O’Donnell as head of client relationships for clearance and collateral management across Europe, Middle East and Africa

OCC named Tier 1 TC-CCP under EMIR
01 July 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The European Securities and Markets Authority has recognised the Options Clearing Corporation as a Tier 1 third-country central counterparty

Chessum leaves abrdn
30 June 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Matthew Chessum will step down as investment director of securities lending, collateral management and money markets, after 10 years with abrdn

Bosonic adds Bitpanda Custody to its network
30 June 2022 UK US
Reporter: SFT

The San-Francisco based DeFI market infrastructure provider claims that release of the Bosonic network will provide a new standard for PvP atomic swap settlement and netting across a global network of independent custodians

State Street hires Meintjes for digital custody
29 June 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Bob Currie

Eugene Meintjes joins State Street Digital after 11 years at UBS, specialising in digital custody from his base in Zurich

ION appoints Jackson as sales director
29 June 2022 Canada
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Chris Jackson has joined ION Treasury as sales director and will support corporate treasury clients across North America

GLEIF deploys first verifiable Legal Entity Identifier
29 June 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The vLEI is a digital version of the LEI, which intends to meet an “urgent need” for automated digital verification of the legal identities of businesses

PRA writes to chief risk officers regarding use of SIMM model
29 June 2022 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

A letter from three PRA senior executives outlines conclusions of its SIMM review, warning of risk of under-margining and poor model fit for some counterparties

Société Générale joins Broadridge’s DLR platform
29 June 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The blockchain-enabled platform aims to accelerate the digitisation of the global repo market to reduce risk and operational costs

BEQUANT announces launch of institutional DeFi platform
29 June 2022 Malta
Reporter: Bob Currie

The digital prime broker says that its new solution, developed with Fireblocks, is the industry’s first decentralised finance platform for institutional users, enabling clients to cross-margin across decentralised and centralised trading platforms