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ISDA launches full open-source version of DRR model
22 November 2022 United Kingdom
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

ISDA members and non-members will have access to the DRR model to support compliance with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s amended swap data reporting rules

BNY Mellon adds Zheng Quan Luah to its client services team
22 November 2022 Singapore
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

BNY Mellon has appointed Zheng Quan Luah as an associate to its client services — clearance and collateral management team

ISLA releases report on proposed GMSLA changes
22 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The International Securities Lending Association has published a paper investigating the changes that will need to be made to the Global Master Securities Lending Agreement to allow for market engagement with digital assets

DTCC releases Report Hub’s assisted reporting model
21 November 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The model aims to allow sell-side firms, including clearing brokers and prime brokers, to provide the required counterparty trade data to their buy-side clients which also utilise Report Hub

LCH appoints Mernagh
21 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

James Mernagh will join LCH as director of RepoClear specialist sales

FSB publishes unchanged list of 30 global systemically important banks
21 November 2022 Basel
Reporter: Bob Currie

This G-SIB classification is based on bank data for the end of 2021 and, for the first time, applies a revised assessment methodology published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in 2018

UK financial authorities complete operational resilience simulation exercise
18 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The two-day simulation, known as SIMEX 22, targeted systemic risks and potential improvements to the financial sector’s collective response capabilities

State Street launches peer-to-peer financing platform
17 November 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Venturi, built through a partnership with FinOptSys, will connect buy-side firms with new sources of liquidity in the global repo space

ESMA grants third-country CCP recognition to Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Clearing
17 November 2022 Malaysia
Reporter: Bob Currie

Bursa Malaysia Derivatives explains that this will improve the exchange’s access to Europe’s investment communities, while European counterparties will find it easier and more cost effective to trade and clear through the Kuala Lumpur-based exchange

VERMEG appoints Welford-Smith
17 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Samuel Welford-Smith will join VERMEG for Banking & Insurance Software in London as senior sales executive

Astana exchange applies Exactpro’s testing framework for cloud-native Repo Market
17 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

To help increase the operational resilience of AIX’s Repo Market and provide information on its quality, Exactpro used th2 — a Kubernetes-driven microservices framework for functional and non-functional testing

Macquarie Group hires Hallam
17 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Ian Hallam, former trader at Société Générale and Commerzbank AG, joins the global financial services group as equity finance and Delta One trader