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ECB to review securities lending and bond purchases
24 November 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The European Central Bank is preparing to review its securities lending and bond purchase programmes at its upcoming 8 December meeting...

DekaBank goes to Clearstream for cross-border aid
23 November 2016 Luxembourg
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

DekaBank has picked Clearstream to support domestic settlement of its cleared trading activity on Euronext, tpREPO and BrokerTec across Belgium, France and the Netherlands...

EquiLend shares SFTR plans
23 November 2016 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

EquiLend is working on a solution to meet the reporting requirements for trades and collateral under the Securities Finance Transaction Regulation...

Calypso in tune with Canada's AIMCo
22 November 2016 Edmonton, Canada
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Alberta Investment Management Corporation, a Canadian institutional investment manager, has gone live with Calypso Technology’s collateral management system...

AcadiaSoft takes over ProtoColl from DTCC
22 November 2016 Massachusetts
Reporter: Drew Nicol

AcadiaSoft, a provider of margin automation solutions for collateral management, has acquired ProtoColl, an end-to-end collateral and margin management service...

FSB updates G-SIB list
21 November 2016 Basel
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Financial Stability Board has revised its ranking list of globally systemically important banks using year-end 2015 data...

REIT to increase sec lending pool
21 November 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Real estate investment trust Two Harbors Investments is currently in the market for a new portfolio of mortgage-backed securities that is can open up to securities financing activities...

Trump presidency a positive for asset managers
18 November 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Alternative asset managers are generally optimistic about the performance of their portfolios under the presidency of Donald Trump, according to a Preqin survey...

SEC’s Fleming defends Dodd-Frank Act
17 November 2016 Maryland
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Rick Fleming has come out in defence of the embattled Dodd-Frank Act following President-Elect Donald Trump’s repeated threats to repeal and replace it...

Euroclear adds Pirum's sec lending to triparty
16 November 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Euroclear has opened up its triparty platform to Pirum’s securities lending toolkit...

ESMA delays Category 3 EMIR phase in deadline
16 November 2016 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The European Securities Markets Authority has offered respite to ‘Category 3’ firms struggling to comply with European Market Infrastructure Regulation implementation burdens...

Wisconsin taps BNY Mellon for middle office services
16 November 2016 Milwaukee
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board has expanded BNY Mellon’s mandate to provide middle-office investment services for assets worth $105 billion...