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Eurex Repo enjoys growth across both its GC Pooling and Repo markets
14 July 2020 Frankfurt
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Eurex sees growth across its GC Pooling and Repo markets, elsewhere EEX sees a mix of highs and lows across derivatives trading, repo, and commodities

EU-wide CCP stress test finds “significant” concentration risk
13 July 2020 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

For the first time, ESMA included a concentration risk component to its EU-wide CCP stress tests and found risk is clustered in one or two of the 16 clearinghouses

Pencils down, please – SFTR is live
13 July 2020 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Phase one and two of SFTR ushers in a comprehensive new SFT reporting framework for investment firms, credit institutions, CCPs and CSDs

EquiLend reveals new promotions
10 July 2020 New York
Reporter: Natalie Turner

EquiLend has promoted Mike Norwood to take over Alvin Oh’s vacated role of global trading product owner, while, John Surgent, steps up to become head of North American post -trade services.

ESMA clarifies failed trades reporting rules under SFTR … sort of
10 July 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ICMA has published the third edition of its SFTR reporting recommendations that addresses previously misunderstood requirements for reporting trades that fail to settle

EC mulls adoption of a time-limited equivalence decision for UK CCPs
10 July 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The European Commission has confirmed it is once again considering the adoption of a “time-limited equivalence decision” for UK-EU CCPs of derivatives

AcadiaSoft signs new agreement with Calypso for use of UMR solution
10 July 2020 San Francisco
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Mutual clients will now be able to access AcadiaSoft’s its Initial Margin Exposure Manager tool through Calypso Uncleared Margin Rules solution

IHS Markit expands Amazon Web Services use for cloud infrastructure
10 July 2020 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

IHS Markit has an existing presence within AWS and will move the majority of its data processing infrastructure, corporate platforms, and end-user applications and services out of its data centres

SFTR: EU LEI coverage still incomplete
10 July 2020 Dublin
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Up to 10 percent of EU market participants in scope for SFTR do not have their LEIs in place with only days to go before go-live

ICSF gains first agent lender partner and more BO members
09 July 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BNY Mellon and the RMA are the latest to partner with ISLA’s Council for Sustainable Finance to promote its principles for sustainable securities lending

IHS Markit unties datasets in new Data Lake platform
09 July 2020 London
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

IHS Markit has launched the Data Lake Catalogy to administer data assets into a centralised cloud-based platform

T-Scape rolls out second version of its corporate actions application
09 July 2020 London
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The deployment of the second version includes major improvements in exception processing, says T-Scape