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EU banks to face shock tests
04 February 2020 Frankfurt
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The European Central Bank has begun stress testing banks from 10 euro area countries as part of the European Banking Authority’s annual exercise.

S3 Partners appoints two new directors
03 February 2020 New York
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The new senior team members will help S3 to sell software, data and apps, leveraging relationships across the alternative investment community, banks and other financial institutions

CSDR will harm those it seeks to protect, says ICMA
03 February 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ICMA and the Investment Association have reinforced calls for a delay and reforms to the CSDR mandatory buy-in provisions with another letter to the European Commission

US SEC approves OCC capital management policy
31 January 2020 Chicago
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Chicago-based clearinghouse OCC has received regulatory approval of its new capital management policy by the US SEC

EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank unveils new securities lending team
29 January 2020 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Deutsche Bank has appointed its first female global head of agency securities lending

J.P. Morgan becomes Eurex GC Pooling's first balance sheet netting pilot
28 January 2020 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

J.P. Morgan is currently the only pilot, but the German exchange is in talks with five other “major clients” about on-boarding in the coming weeks and months

Wematch unveils ETF matching protocol
28 January 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

With its new ETF matching protocol, Wematch aims to provide lenders and borrowers with granular information as soon as the match is identified and will help in the decision-making process before confirming any trade

Richard Portogallo to retire from Morgan Stanley
27 January 2020 New York
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Morgan Stanley to lose prime brokerage head, Richard Portogallo

LCH wades into CSDR buy-in delay debate
27 January 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

LCH notes that full implementation of the settlement discipline regime is “widely expected to occur once modifications to the TARGET2-Securities settlement system run by the European Central Bank are tested and complete”

Eurex Exchange Council re-elects HSBC Germany CEO as chair
27 January 2020 Eschborn
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The Eurex Exchange Council has re-elected HSBC Germany's CEO as chair, while also re-electing Lutz Johanning, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, as deputy chair

Transcend hires former ENSO CTO
24 January 2020 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Transcend has hired Kayur Parekh from ENSO Financial to lead the expansion of its cloud-based technology for the buy-side

Deutsche Bundesbank and Deutsche Boerse back collateral management DLT
24 January 2020 Frankfurt
Reporter: Natalie Turner

DLT has the potential to “significantly change” the current post-trade environment, says new report