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AcadiaSoft to host UMR phase five soft launch
01 June 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

AcadiaSoft has launched a new programme to enable firms in-scope for UMR phase five to stay on track for the new 2021 deadline

MUFG Securities EMEA board appoints new chair
01 June 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Marshall Bailey will replace William Fall, who will step down as chair in September after almost six years in the role

BrokerTec and TriOptima partner on buy-side repo workflow solution
01 June 2020 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Raf Pritchard, head of triResolve, says that there is a lot of value in being able to cross-reference with other electronic records, such as that of BrokerTec, to improve reconciliation services

ICSF gains new global partners for PSSL adoption
29 May 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ISLA’s council has added Norges Bank Investment Management to its member base and gained new partnerships with trade bodies and data providers

Securities finance trader joins Dutch Ministry of Finance
29 May 2020 Amsterdam
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Former ABN AMRO senior securities finance trader has left the industry to join the ministry of finance for The Netherlands

ISLA CEO calls on global regulators to revisit SFT reporting alignment
29 May 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Andrew Dyson notes that the “apparent lack of global coordination” means European firms may feel the high level of regulatory scrutiny “puts them at some sort of commercial disadvantage”

COVID crisis lays bare buy-in “catastrophe”
29 May 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

CSDR's mandatory buy-in regime would have caused “catastrophic” market upheaval if it had been in place during the COVID-19 disruption, says ICMA

Germany’s KfW teams with FIS to transform risk management operations
28 May 2020 Berlin
Reporter: Drew Nicol

KfW, one of the largest banks in Germany, has overhauled its risk management operations with a new platform powered by FIS technology

NSD receives authorisation to assign LEIs to market participants
28 May 2020 Moscow
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Russia's National Settlement Depository has become the countries first CSD to gain certification by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation

Bloomberg and J.P. Morgan partner to enhance post-trade efficiency
28 May 2020 New York
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The offering is now live and in production with the first joint Bloomberg and J.P. Morgan’s Securities Services client and is being made available to other buy-side clients

SmartStream extends its public API for collateral management
27 May 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

SmartStream extends public API to promote access to collateral management technologies

IHS Markit and OpenGamma join forces to help clients with UMR
27 May 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The offering will unite OpenGamma’s pre-trade margin analytics with IHS Markit’s post-trade derivatives calculation service and aims to provide end-to-end support for in-scope entities