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ISLA responds to ESMA’s SFTR consultation paper
06 August 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

ISLA has responded to ESMA’s Guidelines for reporting under articles 4 and 12 of SFTR and has attracted particular attention to the potential restriction on the use of non-EU issuer LEIs

Fed’s ‘hawkish’ rate cut is more ‘dovish' than realised
06 August 2019 Washington
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The Fed’s decision to cut rates has created mixed opinions in the industry with deVere Group CEO arguing that if read between the lines, Powell’s statement is more dovish than markets have so far recognised

Barclays to gain share in Deutsche Bank’s prime brokerage business
06 August 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Barclays is to gain a share from Deutsche Bank’s prime brokerage business, sources have confirmed

ISLA welcomes EBA’s securities lending suggestion
05 August 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The International Securities Lending Association has welcomed the EBA suggestion to withhold the introduction at the EU level of minimum haircut floors for SFTs, including securities lending, from the bank capital requirements framework

BCS Global Markets appoints new prime brokerage sales director
05 August 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

BCS Global Markets has appointed Andrew Richards as prime services sales director, based in London

ECB reveals SESFOD survey results
02 August 2019 Frankfurt
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

In both the securities financing market and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, credit terms offered to almost all counterparties eased between March and May 2019, the European Central Bank (ECB) revealed

Broadridge reveals fiscal year results
02 August 2019 New York
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Broadridge revealed that it’s Q4 fiscal year total revenues decreased 8 percent to $1.2 billion from $1.3 billion compared to the 2018 fiscal year.

OCC’s securities lending on the up for July
02 August 2019 Chicago
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

OCC’s securities lending central counterparty activity was up 10.5 percent in new loans from July last year with 114,818 transactions last month.

Daniel Casley joins Cantor Fitzgerald
02 August 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Daniel Casley has joined Cantor Fitzgerald as head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa prime operations

Deutsche Boerse to launch CSDR solution
01 August 2019 Frankfurt
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Deutsche Boerse Buy-in Agent service will include automated securities lending

Eurex Clearing enhance CCP reports for SFTR reporting
01 August 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Eurex Clearing will introduce the production launch of the central counterparty (CCP) Release 17.0 on 18 November this year

MarketAxess and EquiLend kick-off SFTR testing
30 July 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Trax, a MarketAxess subsidiary, and EquiLend have begun user acceptance testing (UAT) with phase one go-live clients for their joint Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) solution