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Tonic appoints Churchill as global head of delivery
17 March 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Charles Churchill joins Tonic with more than 15 years of experience in consultancy and leadership positions. He will play a crucial role in Tonic’s ongoing expansion and will strengthen the firm’s capabilities in delivering capital markets projects

European Repo Survey reveals new record high for outstanding repo value
17 March 2023 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The total value outstanding of repos and reverse repos on the books of 61 institutions that took part in the survey hits a record high of €10,374.2 billion, a 12.8 per cent rise YoY and 7.2 per cent rise from the June 2022 survey

PASLA backs Korea Exchange CEO’s stance on short selling
17 March 2023 Korea
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Removing short-selling restrictions will boost liquidity and improve price discovery, according to a PASLA representative

Tradeweb appoints Cook
16 March 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Tim Cook joins the global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets as director of emerging markets

Clearstream’s GSF business falls 4% YoY in volume outstanding for February
16 March 2023 Luxembourg
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Clearstream’s Global Securities Financing business contracted 4 per cent YoY to €550.6 billion in volume outstanding during February, according to its monthly figures

Torstone selects Farrell as head of North America
16 March 2023 Canada
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Sam Farrell will have oversight of all US and Canadian operations for Torstone and will continue to expand the firm’s footprint in North America

Corlytics and Solidatus enter into regulatory reporting partnership
15 March 2023 UK, US
Reporter: SFT

This alliance will enable digitised regulatory information from Corlytics to be integrated into the regulatory data catalogues maintained by Solidatus and linked to data lineage models where they can be adapted to companies’ controls and systems

ICMA introduces bond data taxonomy
14 March 2023 Switzerland
Reporter: SFT

The International Capital Markets Association has released a bond data taxonomy (BDT) that provides a common, standardised language to facilitate STP across the bond transaction lifecycle and reduce inconsistent use of data in securities issuance

‘Keep your LEIs close, but keep your IRC closer’, says PASLA panellist
14 March 2023 Asia-Pacific
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

As the Korean market strives to attain Developed Market status from MSCI, recent government announcements are expected to bring a level of improvement in liquidity and settlement within Korea, according to a PASLA panel

ISLA releases new GMSLA templates
14 March 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Accompanying the 2000, 2010 and 2018 versions of the Global Master Securities Lending Agreement, ISLA indicates that the templates will provide a point of reference for parties that have not otherwise developed their own

Broadridge hires Allpress
13 March 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Nicole Allpress joins Broadridge as senior product owner after more than 20 years at FIS and SunGard Securities Finance

DTCC launches service to support transition from LIBOR benchmark rates
13 March 2023 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation has launched a LIBOR Benchmark Replacement Index solution to support the industry’s transition to alternative benchmark rates ahead of the 30 June LIBOR cessation