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Global PSSL publishes consolidated T&Cs
23 December 2021 UK
Reporter: SFT

These new T&Cs clarify roles and responsibilities for stakeholders to the project and provide a framework encouraging “long term thinking”, shaping how participants contribute to the future development of Global PSSL principles

Russia-based Sinara Investment Bank becomes member of ISDA
23 December 2021 Russia
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Russia-based Sinara Investment Bank has become a member of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, a trade organisation of participants in the market for over-the-counter derivatives

SETL joins forces with SWIFT for digital assets pilot
23 December 2021 United Kingdom
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

SETL is to work with SWIFT on an innovation pilot as part of a wider effort to support interoperability in the development of the tokenised asset market

Brian Leung leaves Deutsche Bank
23 December 2021 Hong Kong
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

After 13 years with the firm, Leung has left his position as Deutsche Bank’s APAC head of trading for agency securities lending to pursue other opportunities

Industry consortium interpret latest CSDR mandatory buy-in statement from ESMA
23 December 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

An industry consortium has co-signed a joint-association statement setting out a common interpretation of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s statement which outlines EU legislators do not expect market participants to take further action

DeFinity partners with Cobalt
23 December 2021 London
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The partnership will enable real-time foreign exchange clearing and dynamic credit management of digital asset trades

Euroclear Bank to join ECB’s T2S settlement system
22 December 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

TARGET2-Securities offers centralised settlement in central bank money across European securities markets

EXCLUSIVE: FinOptSys hires John Stancati
21 December 2021 Canada
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Stancati will lead new product development, while helping to grow the securities finance platform’s capabilities at its Toronto office

Keler and IRGiT join forces for CEE regional clearing collaboration
21 December 2021 CEE
Reporter: Bob Currie

An agreement signed between the Warsaw and Budapest stock exchanges, the Polish Power Exchange and Hungarian National Bank plans regional clearing services for CEE and SEE, initially targeting commodities and energy markets

Borsa Istanbul triggers uptick rule
21 December 2021 Turkey
Reporter: SFT

The Istanbul Stock Exchange has triggered an uptick rule on the short sale of a number of stocks in a bid to contain falling share prices

Malaysia’s intraday short selling ban to lift on 1 Jan
20 December 2021 Malaysia
Reporter: Bob Currie

Short selling is to be reintroduced from the new year, subject to additional control measures including application of “at-tick rule”

Proximity raises $31 million in second-round investment stage
20 December 2021 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Proxymity has raised US$31 million in its second-round investment stage