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Mosaic extends support to repo market
19 April 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The support for repo instruments comes as a response to a growing demand from banks for the ability to optimise balance sheets, the firm says

ICMA appoints Patterson
19 April 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Miriam Patterson joins the Association where she will focus on ICMA’s legal and documentation committee alongside supporting broader UK and EU regulatory engagement

BoE and BIS conclude DLT-based Project Meridian
19 April 2023 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Bank for International Settlements and Bank of England have completed their joint initiative named Project Meridian, which was the first programme to be completed by the BIS Innovation Hub in London

Jeffrey Sutton becomes CFTC executive director
19 April 2023 US
Reporter: SFT

Sutton joined the Commodity Futures Trading Commission earlier this month, having previously been chief financial officer at the Drug Enforcement Agency

UBS welcomes Phillip Funk
19 April 2023 Switzerland
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Funk was at SIX for more than 13 years. Most recently he was head of product management for securities finance from May 2021 to December 2022

State Street expands Tahiri’s role to lead Middle East business
19 April 2023 Singapore
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Mostapha Tahiri, Asia Pacific CEO at State Street, will take on additional responsibilities as head of the Middle East, where he will focus on all business activities for both regions

Kaizen Reporting buys compliance solutions specialist Red Deer
19 April 2023 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The acquisition will add Red Deer’s surveillance and research capability to the Kaizen hub, assisting middle office and compliance divisions in identifying cases of market abuse and meeting regulatory commitments

LSEG appoints Singh as group head of data and analytics
18 April 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Satvinder Singh will lead the group’s global data and analytics businesses as well as the joint development of new products and services in LSEG’s strategic partnership with Microsoft

Sharegain forms alliance with J.P. Morgan
18 April 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The collaboration aims to enhance J.P. Morgan’s securities agency lending offering with Sharegain’s SLTech solution, improving accessibility to wealth managers and online broker participants

DSB launches Unique Product Identifier User Acceptance Test service
17 April 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The service aims to support industry readiness and implementation of UPI regulatory mandates in derivatives markets, including amendments to the US Recordkeeping and Swap Data Reporting, EU EMIR Refit and UK EMIR

ISLA releases template clause for Austria
17 April 2023 Austria
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The template follows a requirement from ISLA members to produce a standard form template clause to assist market participants when lending and borrowing Austrian securities

BoE and CFTC reinforce mutual supervision of cross-border CCPs
14 April 2023 US, UK
Reporter: SFT

Based on the 2020 MoU between the BoE and CFTC, the BoE has affirmed that it will continue to rely on CFTC’s supervision and oversight in the case of US-based CCPs that are “incoming” to the UK