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MarketAxess reveals 2020 Regulatory Reporting Hub and SFTR profits and costs
28 January 2021 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The firm’s post-trade business now boasts almost 1,000 active clients, including more than 500 new firms brought onboard as part of the RRH deal

AccessFintech secures two senior hires
28 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Access Fintech has appointed Paynter Higgins from Collibra and Sarah Lloyd Parry from Avora to its executive management team to “support the company’s next stage of growth”

EU accepts US CCP regulatory equivalency
27 January 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Allison Herren Lee, acting chair of the SEC, says: “The EC’s decision is an important first step on the road to providing greater regulatory certainty for CCPs and their members on both sides of the Atlantic"

LIBOR transition: 85% of uncleared UK derivatives market ready
27 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The FCA’s Edwin Schooling Latter says the success of this protocol means “a major reduction in risk faced by the 12,000 plus firms who have already signed, and for the system as a whole”

BCBS proposes changes to SFT haircuts
27 January 2021 Switzerland
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Basel committee has proposed technical amendments to the calculation of minimum haircut floors for securities financing transactions to avoid common misunderstandings

Sharegain makes two new senior hires
27 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Chris Dimmick joins as head of relationship management from AcadiaSoft, while James Cosh becomes a senior operations manager from Pirum Systems

Citi launches new futures algorithm platform
26 January 2021 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Citi’s new flagship algorithm, Arrival, comes as part of a suite of intelligent execution algorithms for global listed derivatives and engineered for the futures markets across all major exchanges in the North America, Europe and Asia Pacific

Credit Suisse expands ESG specialist team with new hires from Robeco and Nordea
26 January 2021 Switzerland
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Credit Suisse has made five new hires to join the bank’s sustainability, strategy, advisory and finance function

Canadian pension plans ended 2020 on a high, Northern Trust data shows
26 January 2021 Canada
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Northern Trust Canada Universe shows Canadian pension plans shrugged off a poor start to 2020, closing with 10 per cent gains for the year

Cecabank selects Broadridge for proxy voting services
26 January 2021 US
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Broadridge’s solution is already live and is providing Cecabank’s domestic and cross-border institutional clients with a fully automated global proxy voting service

Bank of Canada expands securities repo operations
25 January 2021 Canada
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Bank of Canada is changing the terms of its securities repo operations to to increase the availability of its holdings of Government of Canada securities

Capco addresses main challenges for EMIR Refit
25 January 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

“Already concerns have been raised around how these can be adopted and whether they should be the solution for EMIR standardisation,” explains Capco’s Stephen McPherson