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Pirum appoints new CTO
11 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Phil Morgan has tapped Alex Rothwell to become Pirum's first chief technology officer and “supplement the depth of our technology bench” following Rajen Sheth's departure from day-to-day business

Eurex sees the repo volume rise while GC Pooling falls
10 November 2020 Germany
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Eurex saw its repo market volumes increase by 50 percent YoY in October, while GC Pooling figures fell by 25 percent

FIS gains Poikonen
10 November 2020 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Christopher Poikonen left eSecLending in November 2017 after nearly 17 years where he most recently served as a business development and innovation executive

Symposium: Blockchain does not require a “big bang” investment
10 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Speakers from the Securities Finance Technology Symposium’s blockchain panel sought to dispel the myth that adopting blockchain is an all-or-nothing proposition

Euronext Q3 results reveal VP Securities drives post trade revenue
09 November 2020 Holland
Reporter: Natalie Turner

M&A activity dominates Euronext Q3 results, with VP Securities deal driving post-trade revenue boom and deadline approaching for Borsa Italiana acquisition completion

Goldman Sachs joins forces with AccessFintech to deliver new payments service
09 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The new service aims to provide a zero-touch settlement payment process with a digital workflow for collaborative dispute resolution

FCA updates SSR onshoring rules ahead of Brexit conclusion
06 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The FCA expects position holders to report net short positions in shares at the 0.2 percent, rather than the ESMA-mandated temporary 0.1 percent threshold which is set to expire in December but may be extended again

ESMA release first SFTR Q&A
06 November 2020 France
Reporter: Natalie Turner

ESMA has published its first set of questions and answers as a practical convergence tool used to promote common supervisory approaches and practices on SFTR

Symposium: UMR is a “massive driver” for the buy side
06 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The panel at the SLT Securities Finance Technology Symposium noted that on the buy side, people who are more focused on value propositions and solution enablers are driven by regulation and automation

Symposium: Liquidity is key in securities lending
06 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

During a liquidity panel at the SLT Securities Finance Technology Symposium, one panellist highlighted that liquidity is one of the immediate ways to measure the efficiency of the market

BNP Paribas launches new securities lending desk in Hong Kong
05 November 2020 Hong Kong
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Located in Hong Kong, the new desk will focus on Asian markets and provide local client coverage to meet growing appetite from clients looking to increase their asset allocations into the region

Introducing: Securities Finance Times
05 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

To better represent the markets sophisticated landscape we now live, Securities Lending Times is “levelling up” to become Securities Finance Times