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CACEIS appoints new securities finance trader
05 January 2021 Luxembourg
Reporter: Natalie Turner

CACEIS has promoted Sofian Mezrag to trader in securities finance

FCA averts Brexit derivatives disruption
05 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority stepped in to avoid disruption in UK-EU derivatives trades following Brexit, in the absence of an equivalency agreement

Senior State Street securities finance exec takes COO tech role
05 January 2021 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

State Street’s former head of technology for securities finance Frank D'Agnese has stepped up to oversee the bank’s global technology operations

Broadridge-SLIB unveil EU SRD II solution
05 January 2021 France
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The collaboration seeks to modernise the “heavily manual process” of navigating corporate actions with a fully automated cross-border proxy voting solution covering European shareholder meetings

Standard Chartered (China) supports first securities lending deal via QFII
04 January 2021 China
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Standard Chartered assisted with the deal on the first day of the QFII rules changed to allow securities lending in the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets in November 2020

Global securities finance revenue fell 7%, says IHS Markit
04 January 2021 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

IHS Markit has reported that global securities finance revenue in 2020 was $9.3 billion, a 7 percent year-on-year decline

REGIS-TR UK begins post-Brexit reporting
04 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

REGIS-TR UK has started reporting under the on-shored version of EMIR following the conclusion of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020

HSBC facilitates short selling transactions under the QFII scheme
04 January 2021 China
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The first short selling transactions took place on 29 December marking the first time offshore investors could participate in margin financing and short selling transactions on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges

Global lender revenue fell 12% YoY in 2020, says DataLend
04 January 2021 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Despite a year of pandemic-fuelled turmoil, which usually leads to strong returns in the securities finance universe, the market recorded $7.66 billion last year compared to $8.66 billion for in 2019

Malaysia lifts short selling ban
31 December 2020 Malaysia
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Bursa Malaysia will lift its temporary suspension of short selling as of 1 January 2021

HKEX’s OTC Clear carries out first trades for Japanese banks
24 December 2020 Hong Kong
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

OTC Clear cleared a USD-offshore CNY cross-currency swap by Mizuho Bank and a USD-Hong Kong dollar trade by MUFG Bank

Exclusive: Bobby Colon returns to securities finance
24 December 2020 US
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Bobby Colon has joined Trading Apps as head of business development for the Americas