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State Street to open new office in South America
20 October 2022 United Kingdom
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

State Street is to open a new office in Chile to help the firm serve and support institutional clients in South America, with a focus on securities lending, custody and fund administration

Women in Securities Finance celebrates five-year anniversary
19 October 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The London Stock Exchange Group welcomed the Women in Securities Finance London Chapter to open the market in celebration of the group’s five-year anniversary

Copper.co hires Thomas
19 October 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Ben Thomas, former global prime finance trader at Deutsche Bank, has been appointed as asset optimisation director at Copper.co

ICMA publishes guide to domestic repo market in China
18 October 2022 China
Reporter: Bob Currie

Richard Comotto’s volume analyses repo market activities on the Chinese mainland, including products and trading activities, market infrastructure, the interbank market and exchange-traded repo, along with the regulatory and legal framework

ION launches XTP Spark
18 October 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

XTP Spark aims to simplify post-trade processing for brokers and banks, commodity trading firms or niche clearers who are looking to digitise their processes

REGIS-TR partners with Spain’s Cecabank
18 October 2022 Spain
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Cecabank has previously worked with REGIS-TR as a long-term provider of regulatory solutions in the Spanish market

Kaizen Reporting appoints Matthew Vincent as a managing director
18 October 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Vincent has more than 30 years of experience in financial services, including more than 10 years’ experience working in regulatory reporting functions at Tier 1 banks

Securities lending market grows 12% YoY in Q3
17 October 2022 Global
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The securities lending market generated US$2.63 billion in Q3 2022, representing a 12 per cent increase from Q3 2021, according to Nancy Allen, global head of data and analytics at EquiLend

DBS becomes SwapClear direct clearing member in Singapore
17 October 2022 Singapore
Reporter: Bob Currie

As a DCM, this will enable DBS to post Singapore government debt as collateral. SwapClear will be the first global offshore clearing house to accept Singapore government bonds as eligible collateral

CACEIS to acquire RBC’s European asset servicing business
17 October 2022 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

The deal, which is expected to complete by the end of Q3 2023 subject to approvals, will include custody and global custody FX, securities lending, fund services and middle office, along with RBC Investor Service’s service centre in Malaysia

SEC drives for commonality of standards across cryptosecurity tokens and other security types
14 October 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

The US regulator observes that from the 10,000 tokens currently issued in the digital asset marketplace, the large majority of these are securities and are covered under existing securities laws

RMA: Regulators making it difficult for technology innovation in the US
14 October 2022 RMA Conference 2022
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

As the second day of the Risk Management Association’s conference came to a close, the final panel highlighted where the most interest in the marketplace lies for tokenised and traditional assets or cryptoassets