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Lendingblock gains in-principle licence as DLT provider
26 November 2018 Gibraltar
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Gibraltar Financial Services Commission has made an in-principle decision to grant Lendingblock authorisation as a distributed ledger technology provider

Payfare bolsters senior management team
26 November 2018 Toronto
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Payfare, Canadian fintech innovator, has bolstered its new senior management team as it positions itself for the next stage of growth

ESMA welcomes EU no-deal Brexit stance on central clearing
23 November 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

ESMA has welcomed the European Commission’s communication on a contingency plan on central clearing in the event of a no-deal Brexit

SFTR will see some firms stop securities finance, says Simcorp product manager
23 November 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

SFTR will see some firms stop securities finance activity altogether, according to Gernot Schmidt, product manager of regulation at SimCorp

KPMG survey: Some 44 percent of firms stress testing against Brexit
22 November 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Some 44 percent of firms had stress tested their business against Brexit, according to a recent KPMG benchmarking survey

Tammy Phillips establishes Asterisk Networks
21 November 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Tammy Phillips, formerly CEO of SBLNetworks, has set up Asterisk Network, a new peer to peer securities finance fintech

Be ready to use flexibility to provide liquidity in implementing SFTR
21 November 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Firms must be ready to use flexibility to provide liquidity for all the maturities in securities finance transactions

State Street reveals SWFs are adopting new asset utilisation techniques
20 November 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

State Street Corporation and the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds has released a new research paper, in which half of the IFSWF’s member organisations surveyed said they are currently engaged in securities lending

Repo a potential threat to financial stability
19 November 2018 Washington DC
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The vulnerability of repos to runs and fire sales poses potential threats to financial stability, according to a Financial Year 2018 report released by the Office of Financial Research

Swift report: Securities market “most at-risk” from cyber attack
19 November 2018 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The securities market is one of the most at-risk areas from cyber attacks, according to Swift and BAE Systems in a recent report on how cyber attacks could target the world’s financial markets

Euroclear: AI provides endless use cases
19 October 2018 Brussels
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Artificial intelligence provides “endless use cases”, according to panellists at this year’s Euroclear Collateral conference

Euroclear: Regulation gave a boost to the securities finance market
16 November 2018 Brussels
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Regulation has given a boost to the securities finance market, according to panellists at this year’s Euroclear Collateral conference in Brussels