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Davies departs from Pirum
01 February 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Simon Davies, director of business development at Pirum, has left his position at the firm’s London office to pursue new opportunities

IMN: Investment in data architecture key to drive trading and operational performance
01 February 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Panellists at the 28th IMN conference emphasised the importance of data for trading and technology as firms appear to be hesitant to invest

TradeHeader joins REGIS-TR’s partnership programme
31 January 2023 Luxembourg
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Through the partnership, REGIS-TR’s clients will be supported in their reporting obligations and kept informed of regulatory changes

Melanie Moos leaves Clearstream
30 January 2023 Luxembourg
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Melanie Moos has left Clearstream, where she has been senior vice president for product management and investment funds for the past three years

CSDR penalties “bigger than expected”, says BoE Securities Lending Committee
30 January 2023 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Committee notes that concerns around settlement efficiency have prevailed for many years and CSDR penalties have not resulted in a significant improvement since enactment of the settlement discipline regime in February 2022

Wematch appoints Demoulin
30 January 2023
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

UBS veteran Stéphan Demoulin joins the dealing workflow platform as head of sales and relationship management for EMEA securities finance, where he will help to accelerate Wematch’s expansion in the region

SC Ventures, LBBW and Comyno take stakes in DekaBank’s SWIAT
27 January 2023 Germany
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The joint venture aims to create a uniform standard for processing blockchain-based securities, providing software that will form a decentralised financial infrastructure and frictionless, real-time settlement for securities lending and repo

ISLA responds to FCA consultation on sustainability disclosure
27 January 2023 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Association’s response seeks to clarify key messages relating to securities lending best practice and to engage with concerns raised in feedback to the FCA’s earlier Discussion Paper 21/4

Transcend welcomes advisory board members to support global expansion
27 January 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Founder of Advent Software Stephanie Dimarco, 28-year veteran of Goldman Sachs John Willian, and former global treasurer and president of BNY Mellon N.A Scott Freidenrich, will join Transcend as advisory board members

IMN: T+1 implementation could lead to more trade breaks and settlement fails
27 January 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

As a key topic highlighted on a number of sessions at this week’s IMN conference, panellists reflected on the implications of a shorter settlement cycle and compressed time periods for returns and recalls

Fears of repo market price dislocation largely contained over year end, says ERCC report
27 January 2023 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

ICMA ERCC report finds that repo market participants began year-end preparations early and, despite some early widening of pricing, fears of price dislocation over the turn were largely offset

ICMA publishes new post-trade framework for EU-traded sovereign bonds
26 January 2023 Switzerland
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

ICMA says the initiative will help to inform the current discussions among policy makers in the ongoing MiFIR review, and should help “pave the way for the inclusion of meaningful, well-calibrated” sovereign bond data in the EU bond consolidated tape