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US Fed to scale back repo operations
14 April 2020 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

US Federal Reserve will soon begin winding down the additional repo operations that have been in place for over a month to combat the COVID-19-fuelled liquidity issues

DRW to adopt OpenGamma’s analytics to help meet UMR regulation
09 April 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Principal trading firm, DRW, is set to adopt OpenGamma’s derivatives analytics tools into its treasury functions in response to regulations such as UMR

ISLA’s ESG council publishes first position paper
09 April 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

ISLA’s sustainable finance council has waded into the debate on the role of securities lending and short selling during periods of market volatility

Temenos updates software to help with transition from LIBOR to RFRs
09 April 2020 Geneva
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Temenos has updated its banking software products to help banks transition from LIBOR to alternative RFRs, which is set to be at year-end 2021

Deutsche Bank: COVID-19 disruption no threat to ASL growth plans
08 April 2020 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Deutsche Bank’s global agency securities lending head says she has “all hands on the pump” to support clients during the COVID-19 pandemic and that the bank’s latest troubles do not affect her growth plans

Exclusive: New BBH securities lending leadership revealed
08 April 2020 Boston
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Brown Brothers Harriman has promoted Marney McCabe and Tom Poppey to become co-heads of its global securities lending business after Keith Haberlin shifts roles

LCH RepoClear sees record quarter in Q1
08 April 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

LCH has revealed a record-breaking quarter for clearing GBP at RepoClear for Q1

Eurex Repo sees double-digit trading growth
07 April 2020 Frankfurt
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Eurex Repo revealed strong growth in outstanding volumes across its GC Pooling and Repo markets for Q1

ISLA publishes SFTR best practice guide
07 April 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

ISLA has released a best practice SFTR guide for operational processes for in-scope transactions for its members

State Street to lose EMEA business solutions chief
07 April 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

David Shone has spent the past few years spearheading the development of the bank’s SFTR solution

LCH EquityClear goes live with new post-trade platform
07 April 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The platform delivered to LCH is configured to clear and risk manage 20 million trades (40 million trade sides) per day at a throughput of 1,600 trades per second.

BCBS/IOSCO extend deadline on final phases of UMR
06 April 2020 Basel
Reporter: Natalie Turner

BCBS/IOSCO agrees to extend the deadline for completing phases five and six of the margin requirements amid market disruption following mass lobbying effort