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State Street appoints Sam Edwards as APAC collateral management head
16 August 2021 Hong Kong
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

State Street announces hire of Sam Edwards in Hong Kong as head of collateral management for Asia Pacific, reporting globally to Staffan Ahlner and regionally to Michele Hardeman

State Street appoints James Day to head of securities finance
13 August 2021 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

State Street hires James Day, former global head of securities finance product development, to head of securities finance at its London office

SIX Digital Exchange hires new CEO
12 August 2021 Switzerland
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

SIX Digital Exchange has appointed David Newns as CEO, replacing Tim Grant

ISLA to release clause library and taxonomy model in September
12 August 2021 UK
Reporter: Alex Pugh

The primary objective of the Clause Taxonomy and Library Project is to build an industry-wide, foundational clause library for use with the Global Master Securities Lending Agreement, ISLA says

Short selling most lucrative investment strategy for hedge funds in June
11 August 2021 France
Reporter: Alex Pugh

Despite hedge fund strategies underperforming their 12-month average, short selling was the best performing strategy in June with 3.41% monthly return according to EDHEC-Risk

Broadridge appoints Annette Nazareth to board of directors
11 August 2021 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Annette Nazareth, former commissioner at US Securities and Exchange Commission, has joined Broadridge’s board of directors

DTCC to act as sole trade reporting service under new Singapore regulations
11 August 2021 Singapore
Reporter: Alex Pugh

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation will provide trade reporting services to in-scope Singapore firms under the final phase of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s derivatives trade reporting requirements

Broadridge onboards UBS onto distributed ledger repo platform
09 August 2021 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Broadridge, a US global financial technology company, has announced UBS has joined its distributed ledger repo platform after its launch in June

Digital asset exchange settles with US SEC for $10m
09 August 2021 US
Reporter: Alex Pugh

Trading platform Poloniex neither admitted nor denied the Securities and Exchange Commission’s findings but has nonetheless agreed to a cease-and-desist order and to pay disgorgement

Digital asset bank Greengage secures £2.5m funding from IOVLabs
09 August 2021 Gibraltar
Reporter: Alex Pugh

Both of the Gibraltar-based firms want to democratise and open up B2B crypto lending to underserved markets such as SMEs, using the open-source RSK Blockchain and RSK Infrastructure Framework

IPO activity powers LSEG to 4.6% H1 rise in total income
06 August 2021 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

London Stock Exchange group realised significant improvement in revenue from non-cash collateral, which was up 17.5 per cent boosted by strong activity through RepoClear

DTCC upgrades CDS Kinetics platform
04 August 2021 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

Enhancements to data platform extend analytics, historical and time-series data for OTC credit derivatives, along with a new user interface