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EquiLend announce DLT solution to combat recon inefficiencies
13 July 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

The company’s new technology programme, 1Source, will use emerging technologies to address risk, cost and inefficiency in the securities finance industry, starting with eliminating reconciliation breaks and associated settlement fails

Mawdsley joins Broadridge as chief product officer
11 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Broadridge welcomes two senior industry appointments to its Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions platform, Ian Mawdsley and Christian Voigt

Investment Association sets out vision for technology transformation in fund markets
07 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The UK buy-side trade body claims that the funds industry is approaching a major technology transformation driven by tokenisation and use of digital native assets in the collective investment fund products of the future

Broadridge appoints Tyler Derr as chief technology officer
07 July 2022 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Derr will be responsible for overseeing Broadridge’s global technology teams including software engineering, product delivery, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and technology operations

Global securities finance industry generates US$4.8 billion in H1 2022
06 July 2022 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The figure represents a 6 per cent increase from the $4.5 billion generated in H1 of 2021

Governing Council of ECB to adjust its collateral framework for climate initiative
04 July 2022 Germany
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

These measures, expected to enhance the ECB’s risk management practices, are designed in accordance with the Eurosystem’s primary objective of maintaining price stability

OCC named Tier 1 TC-CCP under EMIR
01 July 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The European Securities and Markets Authority has recognised the Options Clearing Corporation as a Tier 1 third-country central counterparty

ION launches FI EMS to simplify fixed income trading
27 June 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

FI EMS aims to ease challenges around selecting counterparties and sourcing liquidity by digitising the entire dealer-to-customer trading process

FINRA fines National Securities Corporation for Reg SHO breaches and other failings
24 June 2022 US
Reporter: SFT

NSC has been instructed to pay approximately US$9 million in fines for a sequence of violations which includes attempting to influence the IPO aftermarket and for failing to obtain locates for short sale transactions under Regulation SHO

Hodder joins Transcend as EMEA director of sales
21 June 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Jonathan Hodder, former Europe head of sales at FIS, has joined Transcend as director of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Low ranking ESG companies facing restricted lending
20 June 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Institutional owners are restricting lending of companies perceived as unsustainable, according to State Street’s Travis Whitmore

Making the right use of regtech has the potential to grow the industry exponentially, says ISLA panellist
17 June 2022 Vienna
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The conference, organised by the International Securities Lending Association, held a regulation-focused panel, entitled “Beyond Acks & Nacks: The End of Regulatory Reporting as We Know it?”, in which Sloyan made the comment