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The Securities Finance Charity Ball returns
24 April 2024 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The annual event was created in 2019 to harness the collective strength of the securities finance market for charitable causes

FSB proposals to enhance liquidity preparedness for margin and collateral calls
18 April 2024 Switzerland
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Weaknesses in liquidity risk management and governance by some market participants, were found to be the key causes behind inadequate liquidity preparedness for margin and collateral calls, according to the FSB

DAF: investing in digital assets is imperative, say speakers
16 April 2024 UK
Reporter: Sophie Downes

The panel discussion at the Digital Assets Forum focused on investment opportunities in the digital space and why it is important to diversify your portfolio

DAF: the challenges in asset and token identification
16 April 2024 UK
Reporter: Jack McRae

The key challenge facing asset and token identification across digital assets lies in improving transparency, according to panellists at the Digital Asset Forum

ESMA publishes first overview of EU SFT markets
09 April 2024 Europe
Reporter: Sophie Downes

The market authority says that the findings provide the “first comprehensive market-level overview of the EU repo market”, based on information reported by market participants

Shih joins Clear Street
05 April 2024
Reporter: Sophie Downes

Wim Shih will focus on building the firm’s prime finance algos and long-term strategy

Clear Street launches clearing service for market makers
04 April 2024 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The service is designed to enable US-registered market makers to gain insights into strategies tailored to their needs, including their diversification into new asset classes and products

Matrix Applications releases sec lending solution
02 April 2024 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The solution is designed to address challenges facing financial firms — notably firms that want to expand into stock loan and which require the expertise or technology to build out the operational support

BNY Mellon and GLMX collaborate to connect the buy side
27 March 2024 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

This integration connects the New York-based bank’s US$5.25 trillion triparty liquidity pool with the electronic securities financing trading platform’s US$2 trillion network.

World’s largest pension fund to resume foreign stock lending
15 March 2024 Japan
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund has confirmed it will resume foreign stock lending after it first suspended the practice in December 2019

SDX appoints Kessler as business head digital securities to executive team
14 March 2024 Switzerland
Reporter: Jack McRae

Kessler joined SDX in 2018 and has 14 years of experience in capital markets and digital transformation.

Bodley joins Pirum as key account director
12 March 2024 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Andy Bodley brings more than 21 years of client-facing experience to the role. He joins Pirum from the London Stock Exchange Group