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BIS publishes guidance on use of CBDCs for offline payments
11 May 2023 Switzerland
Reporter: Bob Currie

The study, published by BIS Innovation Hub Nordic Centre, evaluates how central bank digital currency payments could be made without access to the Internet, an essential consideration for resilience planning and for CBDC payments in remote locations

Clearstream’s GSF volume outstanding rises 3% YoY for April
11 May 2023 Luxembourg
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Clearstream’s Global Securities Financing volume outstanding increased 3 per cent year-over-year to €609.8 billion for April, according to its monthly figures

BNP Paribas Securities Services partners with Bloomberg for data services
10 May 2023 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The combined solution will provide mutual clients with standardised data connectivity to support trade management

SmartStream and Acadia collaborate on collateral management solution
10 May 2023 Luxembourg
Reporter: Lucy Carter

SmartStream’s Transaction Lifecycle Management collateral management solution will be available through Acadia’s Margin Manager, alongside the latter’s substitutions workflow product

State Street executes centrally cleared repo trades on Eurex
10 May 2023 Germany
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The Boston-based bank has executed its first transactions on Eurex through its Munich-based subsidiary State Street Bank International, making Eurex the first clearing house outside of the US to trade and clear repo for the bank

TradFi and DeFi should be used in tandem, Securities Finance Technology Symposium panellists say
09 May 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Traditional finance and decentralised finance can and should exist in tandem, speakers on the ‘TradFi vs DeFi’ panel at this year’s Securities Finance Technology Symposium in Boston affirmed

Regulatory reporting “only going to intensify”, Securities Finance Technology Symposium panellist says
09 May 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Regulatory reporting is a “critical” aspect of business that firms need to be paying attention to, speakers on the ‘Regulatory Reporting: Rewrite, reform, refit’ panel at this year’s Securities Finance Technology Symposium in Boston agreed

LSEG selects OpenFin
09 May 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Under the partnership, LSEG will migrate LSEG Workspace to leverage OpenFin’s technology, making its platform more easily deployable and interoperable with internal apps developed by banks and buy-side customers

Firms join new global blockchain network of networks
09 May 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The Canton Network is designed for institutional assets and built to unlock the potential of synchronised financial markets. Currently, 29 participants have joined the network, including EquiLend, BNP Paribas, Digital Asset and Deutsche Bӧrse Group

MoraBanc selects Sharegain to support sec lending for private bank clients
09 May 2023 London
Reporter: SFT

The private banking group indicates that Sharegain’s Securities Lending as a Service solution will enable it to connect all asset pools to one centralised solution and to generate new revenue from its assets under custody

Eurex Repo average daily volume up 77 per cent YoY for April
05 May 2023 Germany
Reporter: SFT

This year-on-year growth has been driven by a 172 per cent YoY increase in GC Pooling average daily term-adjusted volume to €149.0 billion and 41 per cent YoY growth in special repo average daily volume to €210.0 billion

Mathew joins Euroclear
05 May 2023 Belgium
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Euroclear has appointed Melwin George Mathew as treasury back-office controller in its banking division, based in Brussels