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State Street welcomes Christophe Baurand as French country head
29 March 2022 France
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Baurand has been welcomed as country head of State Street Bank International in France

McCooey appointed head of equity finance and FCM at Wells Fargo
29 March 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Eamon McCooey will continue to work in the firm’s New York office as his role expands to become head of equity finance and futures commission merchant activity

South Street leads investment in hedge fund software firm Kayenta
28 March 2022 US
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

Repo securities finance dealer South Street Securities Holdings has become the lead investor in a capital raise by Kayenta Ltd, a hedge fund software solutions developer

Nick Gant joins CME Group
28 March 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Gant joins the CME Group as director of BrokerTec Products, where he will support BrokerTec’s European repo and government bonds central limit order book, BrokerTec Quote

Eurex STS will cease to operate from 30 June
28 March 2022 Germany
Reporter: Bob Currie

The decision of the European Commission to propose the removal of the buy-in obligation from SDR for an indefinite period renders the business proposition of Eurex STS unviable, says Deutsche Börse

BoE and MIT collaborate on CBDC
28 March 22 UK US
Reporter: Bob Currie

Research project with MIT Digital Currency Initiative group is latest step in the “research and exploration” phase of the UK central bank digital currency programme agreed last year by the Bank of England and HM Treasury

Deutsche Börse acquires Kneip
28 March 2022 Luxembourg
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Deutsche Börse has acquired Luxembourg-based fund data specialist, Kneip Communication S.A., as part of its efforts to expand its fund services and data solutions as a central component of its growth strategy

ESMA fines REGIS-TR €186,000 for EMIR data breaches
25 March 2022 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

REGIS-TR was found to have committed eight breaches relating to failures to ensure the integrity of data and to provide direct and immediate access to regulators

LCH CDSClear launches client clearing of credit index options
25 March 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

J.P. Morgan and BNP Paribas are the first banks to offer the product through CDSClear, enabling access to funding capital and operational efficiencies through clearing

State Street integrates Pirum’s CollateralConnect onto its collateral platform
24 March 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

Through its CollateralConnect solution, Pirum aims to offer firms an easier way to connect to State Street to share data, automate processing and to drive collateral efficiency

IPC launches Connexus
24 March 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The solution will enable market participants to connect to global liquidity venues through ultra-low latency optimised point-to-point optical fibre connections

EquiLend’s securities lending ADV hits new high in February
24 March 2022 US
Reporter: SFT

New York-based securities finance specialist reports average daily trading volumes rising to 121,424 trades during February, up 14 per cent YoY, with fixed income lending hitting single day volume record on 7 February