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Chessum leaves abrdn
30 June 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Matthew Chessum will step down as investment director of securities lending, collateral management and money markets, after 10 years with abrdn

Bosonic adds Bitpanda Custody to its network
30 June 2022 UK US
Reporter: SFT

The San-Francisco based DeFI market infrastructure provider claims that release of the Bosonic network will provide a new standard for PvP atomic swap settlement and netting across a global network of independent custodians

State Street hires Meintjes for digital custody
29 June 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Bob Currie

Eugene Meintjes joins State Street Digital after 11 years at UBS, specialising in digital custody from his base in Zurich

ION appoints Jackson as sales director
29 June 2022 Canada
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Chris Jackson has joined ION Treasury as sales director and will support corporate treasury clients across North America

GLEIF deploys first verifiable Legal Entity Identifier
29 June 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The vLEI is a digital version of the LEI, which intends to meet an “urgent need” for automated digital verification of the legal identities of businesses

PRA writes to chief risk officers regarding use of SIMM model
29 June 2022 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

A letter from three PRA senior executives outlines conclusions of its SIMM review, warning of risk of under-margining and poor model fit for some counterparties

Société Générale joins Broadridge’s DLR platform
29 June 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The blockchain-enabled platform aims to accelerate the digitisation of the global repo market to reduce risk and operational costs

BEQUANT announces launch of institutional DeFi platform
29 June 2022 Malta
Reporter: Bob Currie

The digital prime broker says that its new solution, developed with Fireblocks, is the industry’s first decentralised finance platform for institutional users, enabling clients to cross-margin across decentralised and centralised trading platforms

FAB hires Adams and Alotaibi to Securities Services
28 June 2022 Abu Dhabi
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Matthew Adams joins the First Abu Dhabi Bank as executive director of client management, and Nasser Alotaibi is appointed director of KSA Securities Services

DTCC’s Report Hub service grows to more than 70 firms
28 June 2022 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The members of the hub include leading banks, major swap dealers, and some of the largest custodians, clearing houses and buy-side firms across the globe

Colendi acquires SETL
28 June 2022 UK Turkey
Reporter: Bob Currie

Turkish fintech Colendi has announced the purchase of London-headquartered enterprise blockchain specialist SETL, with plans to shorten the gap between permissioned enterprise blockchain and a secure public blockchain environment

ION launches FI EMS to simplify fixed income trading
27 June 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

FI EMS aims to ease challenges around selecting counterparties and sourcing liquidity by digitising the entire dealer-to-customer trading process