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ESMA bows to market pressure on SFTR
03 October 2016 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The European Securities Markets Authority has avoided creating a “major liquidity issue” by revising the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation’s collateral reporting rules...

GFT adds to pan-Atlantic team
03 October 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Financial services technology consultant GFT has appointed David Collins as head of financial services for the pan-Atlantic region...

HQLA demand on the rise, says ICMA
30 September 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The impending implementation of money market reforms has already begun to change market behaviour by instigating a flight to quality, according to the International Capital Market Association...

SEC agrees next step in T+2 transition
29 September 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has voted in favour of shortening the standard settlement cycle for broker-dealer securities transactions from T+3 to T+2...

Regulations compounding collateral shortfall
28 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The transparency requirement of regulations such as Dodd-Frank and the EMIR are contributing to the market's collateral shortfall, according to respondents of an independent survey commissioned by SIX Securities...

J.P. Morgan AM joins Hazeltree LiquidityWeb
28 September 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

J.P. Morgan Asset Management has been connected into Hazeltree’s partner network LiquidityWeb, an integrated cash management and sweep platform...

CCB and SIX secure renminbi repo deal
27 September 2016 Zurich
Reporter: Drew Nicol

China’s second largest commercial bank, China Construction Bank, and SIX Securities Services have expanded their partnership to include repo trading through SIX Repo...

R3 members trial Intel’s distributed ledger prototype
26 September 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Financial innovation company R3 and eight of its largest consortium member banks including HSBC, Societe Generale and State Street, have successfully tested Intel’s distributed ledger prototype for bond transactions...

SGSS secures T2S mandate for Hungary
26 September 2016 Budapest
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Societe Generale Securities Services has won a mandate to connect the Hungarian central securities depository with the Target2-Securities settlement platform...

ICAP and MTS add Spanish repo index
26 September 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ICAP’s global fixed income trading platform BrokerTec has partnered with MTS, a European fixed income platform, to add a Spanish repo index to its RepoFunds Rate indices...

SIFMA bangs the drum for securities lending
23 September 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The securities lending market is not a systemic risk and therefore should not be constrained by regulation, according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Authority...

Digital Asset applies Blockchain to Swiss market
22 September 2016 Zurich
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SIX Securities Services is partnering up with Digital Asset Holdings to work on a proof-of-concept for blockchain technology in the Swiss financial market...