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EquiLend announce DLT solution to combat recon inefficiencies
13 July 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

The company’s new technology programme, 1Source, will use emerging technologies to address risk, cost and inefficiency in the securities finance industry, starting with eliminating reconciliation breaks and associated settlement fails

SDX announces tokenisation of equity shares
12 July 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Holly Shelton

Switzerland’s SIX Digital Exchange has announced the tokenisation of equity shares in a fully regulated CSD based on DLT

BNP Paribas Securities Services hires Martin as head of New Zealand
12 July 2022 New Zealand
Reporter: Holly Shelton

BNP Paribas welcomes Iain Martin as head of New Zealand operations

ESMA consults on cash penalty procedures under CSDR
12 July 2022 EU
Reporter: SFT

The EU securities market regulator has launched a consultation to assess industry reaction to proposed changes to cash penalty procedures under the Central Securities Depositories Regulation

BBVA hires Praxedes
12 July 2022 France
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Alvaro Praxedes has joined BBVA as fixed income sales specialist after 14 years at BNP Paribas

TS Imagine expands team amid ‘strong growth’
12 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Paul Sweeney, Puiter Kogan and Marina Melnick are among the nearly 100 new hires to TS Imagine

Clearstream launches data solutions to predict settlement efficiency
11 July 2022 Luxembourg
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The Settlement Dashboard and AI-powered Settlement Prediction Tool will be free of charge to Clearstream clients during its trial period

Multilateral organisations offer recommendations for CBDC interoperability
11 July 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: SFT

New report by the BIS, IMF and World Bank says central banks must review multinational interoperability and foreign investor access to secure best use of central bank digital currencies in cross-border payments

Mawdsley joins Broadridge as chief product officer
11 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Broadridge welcomes two senior industry appointments to its Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions platform, Ian Mawdsley and Christian Voigt

BoE Money Markets Committee voices concern over repo fail rates
11 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

Repo fail rates are “still too high” and this reflects poorly on the London market, says BoE Committee, with low liquidity, COVID challenges and upstream failures in an interlinked chain of transactions contributing to the rise

ING spins out Pyctor to GMEX for digital assets compliance
11 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

ING Group has spun out Pyctor’s digital post-trade market infrastructure technology to GMEX Group to strengthen the market infrastructure vendor’s MultiHub platform

MUFG Investor Services appoints new duo to its global securities lending team
08 July 2022 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

MUFG Investor Services has appointed Matthew Russo (pictured second from left) and Zana Hadzovic (pictured second from right) to its global securities team