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R3 raises record funds for DLT development
24 May 2017 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The R3 group has raised $107 million in two tranches of fundraising, securing the largest ever investment in distributed ledger technology to date

EquiLend hires Hollyoake for post-trade team
23 May 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

EquiLend has secured Emily Hollyoake as a post-trade product specialist

Lacklustre T2S take up drives volume drop-off
23 May 2017 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Clearstream warns of T2S’s failure to galvanise the market as its monthly volume slips 13 percent for April

IHS Markit signs Day for SFTR team
22 May 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

IHS Markit has welcomed Stuart Day to its Securities Financing Transactions Regulation team

Canadian securities regulator expands T+2 proposals
19 May 2017 Toronto
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Canadian Securities Administrators has released its final proposal for the transition of mutual funds and equity and long-term debt to T+2 on 5 September

Chile to launch securities lending blockchain
18 May 2017 Santiago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Chile’s Santiago Exchange is partnering with IBM to leverage Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric for a short selling and securities lending blockchain solution by December

Deutsche Bank recruits Maurice Leo
17 May 2017 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Maurice Leo has returned to Deutsche Bank following 13 years at State Street

SS&C wins expanded Acadian mandate
17 May 2017 Connecticut
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Acadian Asset Management cites collateral management and accounting expertise as key to SS&C mandate

Prime brokers failing to retain hedge funds
17 May 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Just under 40 percent on hedge funds surveyed by Preqin switched prime brokers in 2016

BrokerTec and MTS expands RepoFunds Rate suite
16 May 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Fixed income trading platforms BrokerTec and MTS have added Dutch and Belgian repo indices to the RepoFunds Rate suite

Canadian pension fund win streak continues
15 May 2017 Toronto
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Canada’s pension funds achieved a fourth consecutive quarter of growth, posting returns of 2.9 percent in Q1, according to RBC Investor & Treasury Services

Global political turmoil driving bond trading
15 May 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Geo-political events in the US and Europe were the most significant drivers of fixed income trading in the 12 months ending March, according to NEX Group