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Goddard retires
16 February 2026 UK
Reporter: Hansa Tote

Adam Goddard has retired after 37 years in the financial industry, leaving his position at Forvis Mazars US as senior manager

Saphyre appoints Handzy as COO
16 February 2026 US
Reporter: Hansa Tote

Damian Handzy brings more than 25 years of executive experience in financial technology to the role, where he will lead global operations as the firm scales its platform

SFC boosts Hong Kong’s digital asset market
13 February 2026 Hong Kong
Reporter: Hansa Tote

As part of its latest measures to expand product and service diversity under the ASPIRe Roadmap, the SFC is enabling virtual asset brokers to offer virtual asset financing to their securities margin clients

CASLA appoints D’Eramo
13 February 2026 Canada
Reporter: Hansa Tote

Samantha D’Eramo is assistant vice president at State Street Markets, and has been chosen as coordinator on the Canadian Securities Lending Association’s executive team

CMU OmniClear welcomes CBUAE as a member
13 February 2026 Hong Kong
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Through CMU, CBUAE and investors in the UAE will gain direct access to debt capital markets in Hong Kong Mainland China via the Bond Connect scheme

Hazeltree: Global hedge funds experienced volatility in January
13 February 2026 Global
Reporter: Hansa Tote

The monthly report provides a look back at hedge fund long and short crowdedness across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, based on Hazeltree’s analysis of anonymised data from approximately 16,000 securities

Oegerli nominated as Leonteq’s chairman
13 February 2026 Switzerland
Reporter: Hansa Tote

Felix Oegerli brings more than 30 years of leadership experience in the financial industry, with a strong focus on capital markets, sales, and trading

UK digital gilt programme moves forward
12 February 2026 UK
Reporter: Matthew Challis

HSBC has been appointed as the platform provider for DIGIT, which was initially announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in November 2024, with Ashurst set to provide legal services for the digital pilot

Tradeweb completes first fully electronic swaption termination
12 February 2026 US
Reporter: Hansa Tote

The transaction took place between Citadel and Wells Fargo on Tradeweb’s Swap Execution Facility, with post-trade processing routed through OSTTRA’s MarkitWire platform

Wematch.live surpasses US$1.64 trillion
12 February 2026 UK, US, France
Reporter: Hansa Tote

The figure represents 2 per cent month-on-month growth and an 84 per cent increase year-on-year, following a period of rapid acceleration for the firm

Hang Seng Bank joins PASLA
12 February 2026 Hong Kong
Reporter: Hansa Tote

The firm provides customer-centric banking, investment and wealth management services for individuals and businesses, and is a principal member of the HSBC Group

Broadridge’s DLR platform reaches US$365 billion ADV for January
12 February 2026 US
Reporter: Hansa Tote

The rise in average daily trade volumes underscores the continued institutional adoption of tokenised real-asset settlement at scale, the firm states