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Morgan Stanley launches fixed income ESG fund
14 December 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The fund is designed to be less carbon intensive than its index and will maintain a net positive alignment with the UN's sustainable development goals while also investing in green, social and other labelled sustainable bonds

LCH SA to offer clearing for Oslo Børs derivatives market
14 December 2020 Norway
Reporter: Natalie Turner

LCH has achieved its latest milestone in the expansion of trading venues by offering clearing services to the Oslo Stock Exchange’s derivatives market

Eurex Repo sees growth while GC pooling volumes fall
11 December 2020 Germany
Reporter: Natalie Turner

GC pooling volumes were down 50 percent compared to the same month last year while the repo market sees a generous growth of 88 percent

J.P. Morgan executes intraday repo transaction using blockchain
11 December 2020 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

By deploying blockchain, J.P. Morgan “creates new opportunities” to streamline operational processes and accelerate settlement for repo, says Scott Lucas, head of markets

South Korea to tighten penalties for illegal short selling
11 December 2020 South Korea
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Traders risk a year in prison and a $460,000 fine for naked short selling in South Korea, and must retain a five-year paper trail of borrowed securities under proposed amendments to capital market regulations

LCH RepoClear welcomes Clearstream as its first clearing member from Luxembourg
10 December 2020 Luxembourg
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Clearstream is the first member from Luxembourg to clear sterling debt at LCH and the first ICSD to become a member of RepoClear

DTCC to create “the most comprehensive pre-and-post-trade reporting solution”
10 December 2020 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has acquired Publicis Sapient’s Compliance Management Reporting System and will integrate it with its own reporting hub to enable firms to better manage pre-and-post reporting processes

More asset managers are turning to securities lending to boost performance, says BBH
09 December 2020 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Brown Brothers Harriman surveyed more than 50, senior executives, collectively — collectively overseeing $18 trillion in assets under management and more than 115,000 employees globally, as part of its first buy-side market review

Nigerian securities lending volumes skyrocket
09 December 2020 Nigeria
Reporter: Natalie Turner

In its most recent securities lending market report (published weekly), the Nigeran Stock Exchange details the eye-popping scale of the growth in securities lending volumes so far this year

Exclusive: ConneXXion Markets goes live
09 December 2020 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The new cloud-based electronic secured finance solution is releasing new pools of liquidity for market participants and was co-founded by Rob Verrillo, Tim McCall, and Gareth Mitchell

Global securities lending revenues up for third month, says IHS Markit
08 December 2020 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Global securities lending revenues for November was recorded at $742 million, down 1 percent year-on-year, but up 3.6 percent month-on-month, according to IHS Markit

BoE grants CSDR licence to Euroclear UK & Ireland
08 December 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

This makes EUI the seventh and final CSD entity in the Euroclear Group to receive its licence