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IHS Markit expands Amazon Web Services use for cloud infrastructure
10 July 2020 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

IHS Markit has an existing presence within AWS and will move the majority of its data processing infrastructure, corporate platforms, and end-user applications and services out of its data centres

SFTR: EU LEI coverage still incomplete
10 July 2020 Dublin
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Up to 10 percent of EU market participants in scope for SFTR do not have their LEIs in place with only days to go before go-live

ICSF gains first agent lender partner and more BO members
09 July 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BNY Mellon and the RMA are the latest to partner with ISLA’s Council for Sustainable Finance to promote its principles for sustainable securities lending

IHS Markit unties datasets in new Data Lake platform
09 July 2020 London
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

IHS Markit has launched the Data Lake Catalogy to administer data assets into a centralised cloud-based platform

T-Scape rolls out second version of its corporate actions application
09 July 2020 London
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The deployment of the second version includes major improvements in exception processing, says T-Scape

TriOptima and DTCC expand partnership to SFTR reporting
08 July 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The partnership allows market participants to compare and align records via DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service with their reported data fields in TriOptima's triResolve platform

Ideanomics fires back at short sellers’ accusations of misleading investors
08 July 2020 New York
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The fintech company refuted claims that it has less than three months operating cash, saying it has “sufficient cash” to maintain its operations for at least 12 months

Pirum Systems CEO Rajen Sheth to hand the reins to Phil Morgan
07 July 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Sheth, who has been CEO of Pirum since 2014, will remain on Pirum’s board and become president once Morgan takes over

Turkey bans six major investment banks from shorting
07 July 2020 Istanbul
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Barclays Capital are among several financial institutions to be temporarily banned from short selling by Turkey’s capital markets regulator

OCC completes next phase of liquidity enhancement plans
07 July 2020 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

OCC’s liquidity risk management framework aims to ensure that it holds sufficient qualified liquid resources to meet settlement obligations under “foreseeable stress scenarios”

CSDR and EMIR clash on derivatives, warn trade bodies
07 July 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Derivatives should be exempt from CSDR as settlement failure events are already covered by EMIR and other existing rules frameworks, says FIA and ISDA

ISLA produces CSDR FAQs
06 July 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The documents focus on how CSDR’s incoming mandatory buy-ins and cash penalty rules apply to securities lending transactions entered into under a GMSLA