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TASE to create blockchain securities lending platform
17 May 2018 Tel Aviv
Reporter: Brian Bollen

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), professional services group Accenture and global financial technology innovation centre The Floor, are to develop a new blockchain securities lending platform powered by Intel

Deutsche Börse and Clearstream to launch Acceleration platform
16 May 2018 Frankfurt
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Deutsche Börse Group and its post-trade services provider Clearstream, will partner with financial technology firms, figo and Finologee to create the Acceleration platform

Aufrichtig to leave HSBC South Africa
15 May 2018 Johannesburg
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Ryan Aufrichtig is leaving his role as head of prime finance South Africa at HSBC

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Hutchings to leave ISLA
15 May 2018 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Mark Hutchings is due to leave the International Securities Lending Association

IHS Markit: US gaming stocks soar on US Supreme Court decision
15 May 2018 New York
Reporter: Brian Bollen

Stocks related to gambling in the US have received a jolt as the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 to overturn the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, which essentially banned sports betting in states where it wasn’t already legal

ITG: Introduction of DVC has seen an emergence of different venue profiles
15 May 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Dark caps created “a more fragmented, and likely more challenging, liquidity landscape for capped securities compared with non-capped ones”, according to an April report by ITG, a financial technology firm

Savers miss out as interest rates stagnate
11 May 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Savers miss out again as interest rates stagnate, according to Angus Dent, CEO, ArchOver

ECB responds to queries about T2S
11 May 2018 Frankfurt
Reporter: Brian Bollen

The European Central Bank has responded to requests for clarification of reports that it would be raising fees for access to its TARGET2Securities platform

OIRA publishes spring agenda
10 May 2018 Washington DC
Reporter: Brian Bollen

The US Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Office of Management and Budget has published its spring agenda, which features a number of notable items of concern to the international financial services industry

Firms need to plan early for reg landscape transition, says Ferrise
10 May 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Firms need to plan early for changing in the changing regulatory landscape the industry is currently seeing, according to Andrea Ferrise of UnaVista

Transparency can be a success for reg reporting, according to panel
10 May 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Transparency can be a success if it achieves what it intends to, according to a speaker at the Finadium Investors in Securities Lending Conference in London.

Securities lending is coming of age from a technology perspective, says panel
10 May 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Securities Lending is coming of age and maturing from a technology perspective, according to a panel at the Finadium Investors in Securities Lending conference in London