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Emerging markets: unlocking dead capital and new liquidity
20 June 2022 Global
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The industry maps out routes of opportunity in emerging markets while discussing the pain points of establishing lending and financing activities in the Middle East and Africa regions

Making the right use of regtech has the potential to grow the industry exponentially, says ISLA panellist
17 June 2022 Vienna
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The conference, organised by the International Securities Lending Association, held a regulation-focused panel, entitled “Beyond Acks & Nacks: The End of Regulatory Reporting as We Know it?”, in which Sloyan made the comment

ISLA: Buy-side firms reassess access to market liquidity
17 June 2022 Austria
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Buy-side firms are relying on agent lenders to explore different means of accessing market liquidity as the securities lending discipline evolves

NGT hits new daily high for trading volume, says EquiLend
17 June 2022 US
Reporter: SFT

EquiLend’s NGT platform recorded a new record high trading volume of 145,380 trades, against 157.5 billion in notional on 15 June, with monthly trading volume up 22 per cent YoY for May

Securities Finance Times Industry Excellence Awards debuts in London
17 June 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

A night attended by leading figures in the securities lending and financing industry, the SFT Industry Excellence Awards announced big winners and raised charitable donations for Mind

State Street hires Joshi as head of Collateral+ APAC business development lead
16 June 2022 Singapore
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Purtini Joshi has been appointed head of Collateral+ APAC business development lead at the firm’s Singapore office

Protego Trust Bank adds to advisory board
16 June 2022 US
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

Protego Trust Bank has appointed five new senior industry professionals to its advisory board, which now has 11 members

DTCC claims further advances in corporate actions automation
15 June 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

US market infrastructure giant indicates that its newly automated Voluntary Reorganization service is an important step for its programme to remove manual interventions from corporate actions processing

SEC Philippines joins ANNA
15 June 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The Securities and Exchange Commission Philippines has joined The Association of National Numbering Agencies as partner

Global banks trial Finteum intraday repo and FX swap platform
14 June 2022 London
Reporter: Bob Currie

BNY Mellon, Barclays, Citi and NatWest Group are among 14 banks that have tested simulated intraday repo and intraday FX swap trades on the platform built by the London-based fintech, which is expected to launch in 2023

KOR completes Series A investment round and expands leadership team
14 June 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Tom Wieczorek will join the firm as chief product officer, and John Burchenal is appointed director of partnerships and industry relations

Euronext acquires Nexi technology businesses
14 June 2022 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Euronext and Nexi have signed the sale and purchase of the technology businesses currently powering MTS, Euronext’s fixed-income trading platform, and Euronext Securities Milan