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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

TriOptima and DTCC expand partnership to SFTR reporting
08 July 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The partnership allows market participants to compare and align records via DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service with their reported data fields in TriOptima's triResolve platform

Ideanomics fires back at short sellers’ accusations of misleading investors
08 July 2020 New York
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The fintech company refuted claims that it has less than three months operating cash, saying it has “sufficient cash” to maintain its operations for at least 12 months

European Investment Bank joins LCH as clearing member
08 July 2020 Luxembourg
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The European Investment Bank become first supranational institution to become a clearing member of LCH’s EU-facing repo service, RepoClear

Clearstream and LCH EquityClear collaborate on new post-trade connection
08 July 2020 Luxembourg
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Clearstream Banking S.A. and LCH have agreed to make LCH-cleared equities contracts eligible for settlement within Clearstream Banking S.A.