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Traiana enhances swaps offering
27 February 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Traiana has launched a new suite of services to allow swaps providers to electronically manage payments and confirmations in equity swaps

PIMCO raises Stafford to Asia Pacific head
27 February 2017 California
Reporter: Drew Nicol

PIMCO has secured Kimberley Stafford as its new head of Asia Pacific

EU watchdogs lay down the law on VM deadline
24 February 2017 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The EU supervisory authorities have chastised the union’s financial services industry for failing to meet the already delayed deadline for exchanging variation margin

DB: No light at end of the tunnel for EU repo
23 February 2017 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Hard pressed European repo desks should not hold out hope of respite from the European Central Bank’s bond purchase programme in March just because inflation rates are on the rise, according to Deutsche Bank analyst Jochen Möbert

Lombard completes last piece of Colline services puzzle
23 February 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Lombard Risk has bolted on a new exchange-traded derivatives module to its flagship Colline platform

Clearstream’s securities financing volumes dip
21 February 2017 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Volumes in Clearstream’s securities finance business fell 5 percent in January

ETF lending on the rise, says M'Rabti
20 February 2017 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Agent lenders are “getting serious” about including exchange-traded funds in their lending programmes thanks to a transactional hurdles being removed, according to Euroclear’s Mohamed M'Rabti

EXCLUSIVE: Zirpolo leaves Cantor Fitzgerald
20 February 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Cantor Fitzgerald’s managing director and head of stock loan Rory Zirpolo has left the firm

ESMA wades into DLT debate
17 February 2017 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The European Securities and Markets Authority has acknowledged a number of benefits that distributed ledger technology could bring, including greater post-trade efficiency, enhanced reporting capabilities and reduced costs

India offers fee savings boost to lending
16 February 2017 New Delhi
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Indian National Securities Clearing Corporation has offered an olive branch to the National Stock Exchange securities lending market by introducing an incentive scheme that would see larger transactions rewarded with cuts to charges

CFTC offers respite from 1 March margin rules deadline
15 February 2017 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Swaps dealers have been gifted a seven-month grace period to finalise their compliance infrastructures for the new variation margin requirements set to come into force on 1 March

Dag Rudiløkken returns to DNB Bank
14 February 2017 Oslo
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Dag Rudiløkken has returned to DNB Bank after a six-month spell at Nordea Bank