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ESMA release first SFTR Q&A
06 November 2020 France
Reporter: Natalie Turner

ESMA has published its first set of questions and answers as a practical convergence tool used to promote common supervisory approaches and practices on SFTR

Symposium: UMR is a “massive driver” for the buy side
06 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The panel at the SLT Securities Finance Technology Symposium noted that on the buy side, people who are more focused on value propositions and solution enablers are driven by regulation and automation

Symposium: Liquidity is key in securities lending
06 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

During a liquidity panel at the SLT Securities Finance Technology Symposium, one panellist highlighted that liquidity is one of the immediate ways to measure the efficiency of the market

BNP Paribas launches new securities lending desk in Hong Kong
05 November 2020 Hong Kong
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Located in Hong Kong, the new desk will focus on Asian markets and provide local client coverage to meet growing appetite from clients looking to increase their asset allocations into the region

Introducing: Securities Finance Times
05 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

To better represent the markets sophisticated landscape we now live, Securities Lending Times is “levelling up” to become Securities Finance Times

Bloomberg adds Credit Benchmark’s assessment data to dashboard
05 November 2020 New York
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Credit Benchmark’s data tools are now embedded into the Bloomberg Terminal to help market participants assess the credit quality or risk of default of a counterparty, company or entity

Should the market have opted for a standardised SFTR solution?
05 November 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Panellists at the SLT Securities Finance Technology Symposium discussed the long journey leading to the various SFTR solutions we see today and pondered whether a standardised solution should have been implemented

ISLA to combine ESG initiatives after ICSF closure
04 November 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ISLA has invited all relevant council members and partners to join its ESG working groups after the council is wound down and says it will take on the mantle of its work in advancing the sustainability agenda

Deal or no deal, we will see regulatory divergence after Brexit, says panellists
04 November 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Securities Finance Technology Symposium panellists from international trade repositories discussed how the challenges of the first three phases of SFTR were met and what the future holds after Brexit

Credit Suisse goes live with the Torstone SaaS platform
04 November Toronto
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) has a dedicated securities finance system that will now feed into the Torstone platform, which is the core books & records for the equities business, capturing all trades

Wirecard: German regulators failed to heed red flags by short sellers
04 November 2020 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ESMA has published its assessment of the events leading to the collapse of Wirecard and the effectiveness of the supervisory response by Germany’s BaFin and FREP

Eurex Clearing expands incentives to switch OTC swap portfolios into the EU
03 November 2020 Frankfurt
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Eurex Clearing is offering a complete waiver of booking fees for OTC interest rate swaps and overnight index swaps to entice banks and buy-side members to move their portfolios