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Proposed Form PF updates will extend reporting obligations for hedge fund advisers
07 February 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

The SEC’s proposed amendments to Form PF reporting will require large hedge fund advisers to disclose extraordinary investment losses, significant margin and default events, and material change in the prime broker relationship for reporting funds

BME launches digital proxy voting service in partnership with Proxymity
07 February 2022 United Kingdom
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

BME has launched its digital proxy voting service for shareholders’ meetings in partnership with Proxymity

Gemini acquires Omniex
07 February 2022 United Kingdom
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Gemini has acquired Omniex, a trading technology platform that provides order, execution, and portfolio management system solutions for institutional crypto trading

UBS appoints Ebru Ciaravino as executive director
04 February 2022 Germany
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Ciaravino will join the bank’s Frankfurt office as executive director of exchange-traded derivatives and clearing sales for its European clients

Tradeweb reports YoY January increase for global repo activity
03 February 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Repo daily average volume was up 5.5 per cent YoY to US$346.5 billion for the month of January. The total trading volume was US$22.3 trillion for January, across its electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets

Regulators should review UCITS terms to make them more lendable, members tell BoE Committee
03 February 2022 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

In a wide-ranging discussion, the BoE's Securities Lending Committee addressed agent lender disclosures, problems of lending UCITS, and pressure on lending revenues, according to the newly-released minutes of its November meeting

Pirum launches RepoConnect service
03 February 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

RepoConnect is a repo and buy-sell back real-time matching, reconciliation and lifecycle automation solution, available for the US and international markets

OCC securities lending average daily loan value rises 24% YoY for January
03 February 2022 US
Reporter: SFT

Securities lending ADV rises YoY to US$132.1 billion for January, with aggregate cleared futures and options volumes hitting new January high

Global securities lending revenue drops 12% YoY for January, says DataLend
03 February 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The global securities finance industry generated US$703 million in revenue for lenders in January 2022, according to DataLend

Euronext Securities Oslo secures CSDR licence
02 February 2022 Norway
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The company’s Copenhagen, Milan and Porto CSDs now hold licences under CSDR, with Euronext Securities Oslo licence taking effect on 1 March 2022

Alex Ithier departs from Asterisk Networks
02 February 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Formerly working in sales within the product and business development section of Asterisk Networks, Ithier has left the traditional finance world to enter into the crypto industry

ISLA and ICMA release best practice guidelines after CSDR implementation
02 February 2022 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The guidelines aim to assist market participants with the implementation of CSDR ensuring that penalties are fairly distributed and applied to the party at fault