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IHS Markit enhances securities finance data and analytics platform
06 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The new functionality includes a unique tool that offers daily analytical reports that can complement a firm’s approach to best execution and daily disclosure data on short positions from China

OCC achieves record breaking 2020
06 January 2021 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

An uptick in securities lending activity contributed to December becoming the highest volume month in OCC’s history, up 80.9 percent YoY

CFTC grants temporary no-action relief to derivatives clearing organisations
06 January 2021
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The independent US government agency has agreed to not take enforcement action against derivatives clearing organisations for daily reporting failures until 27 January 2022

Deutsche Bank joins ranks of custodians offering securities lending via QFII scheme
05 January 2021 Hong Kong
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Deutsche Bank has facilitated its first margin trading and securities lending transaction for a client under China’s expanded Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors

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