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Exclusive: Trading Apps welcomes fresh talent to begin new chapter
07 May 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Trading Apps welcomes two new directors and appoints Carol Kemm as consultant director

Securities lending revenue stumbles in April
06 May 2020 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Securities lending revenues last month totalled $700 million, a decline of 14 percent compared with April 2019, data from IHS Markit shows

ESMA hands four TRs their SFTR licences
06 May 2020 Paris
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Four trade repositories have gained their licence to operate under SFTR by the European Securities and Market Authority

ICSDs held firm during Q1 volatility, says Fitch Ratings
06 May 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Fitch Ratings has given Europe’s ICSDs a clean bill of health following the first-quarter volatility, with an uptick in securities financing trading volumes contributing to bumper revenues

OCC sees another volume climb in securities lending
06 May 2020 Chicago
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The largest equity derivatives clearing organisation sees another leap in securities lending volume as its total cleared contracts continues to rise

INTL FCStone grows prime brokerage operations
05 May 2020 New York
Reporter: Natalie Turner

INTL FCStone Financial has brought in fresh talent from Citi to its prime brokerage operations

Velocity Capital appoints new executive vice president
05 May 2020 New York
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Anthony Barros is appointed as Velocity Capital new executive vice president of securities lending

OCC to overhaul securities lending infrastructure with DLT system
05 May 2020 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

OCC is working with fintech firm Axoni to become the first CCP to utilise DLT for its securities lending clearing system

Exclusive: DZ PRIVATBANK chooses deltaconX platform for SFTR reporting
05 May 2020 Luxembourg
Reporter: Natalie Turner

deltaconX has secured the first Luxembourg-based user of its regulatory platform for SFTR reporting

Bloomberg appoints former SBL executive in emerging markets role
05 May 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Ravi Kotecha, former executive director of Sberbank, has been appointed as emerging workflow specialist for Bloomberg

ECB steps up liquidity support with new operations
04 May 2020 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The European Central Bank is launching a new series of longer-term refinancing operations, called pandemic emergency longer-term refinancing operations, to provide banks with further liquidity support

IHS Markit acquires Catena Technologies
04 May 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

As part of IHS Markit, Catena will be able to offer customers a single-vendor solution that integrates transaction reporting with other post-trade and compliance workflows