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FSB on track for 2018 shadow banking deadline
05 September 2016 Basel
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Financial Stability Board is committed to meeting its December 2018 deadline for implementing its reporting framework on ‘shadow banking’, according to its progress report on tackling data gaps in financial markets...

EXCLUSIVE: Bergson joins Pirum
02 September 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Pirum Systems has brought on Morgan Stanley’s Harold Bergson as a technical lead to develop its enhanced product set...

SEC amends swaps reporting rules
02 September 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has formally adopted amendments to its reporting requirements for security-based swaps data repositories...

OneChicago suffers volume drop-off in August
02 September 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Securities finance exchange OneChicago saw its trading volume fall by 21 percent in August compared to the same time in 2015...

OCC enjoyed a sec lending boom in August
02 September 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Options Clearing Corporation’s securities lending activity was up 35 percent in new loans in August, compared to 2015, with 160,798 transactions recorded...

Eurex Repo average volume falls in August
01 September 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Eurex Repo’s average outstanding volume in August was €32 billion below what was recorded in the same month in 2015, parent company Deutsche Börse has reported...

OCC freshens up board of directors roster
01 September 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Options Clearing Corporation has appointed Thomas Wittman as an executive director to replace Gary Katz on its board of directors, effective immediately...

LCH gains CCP approval in Hong Kong
01 September 2016 Hong Kong
Reporter: Drew Nicol

LCH has been authorised by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission to provide automated trading services in Hong Kong via its SwapClear and ForexClear services...

Another new face at Lombard Risk
01 September 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Lombard Risk has hired Thomas Chevalier to the newly created position of business development manager for France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal and Greece...

Vanguard to open ETFs to sec lending
31 August 2016 Pennsylvania
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Vanguard Asset Management is preparing to allow select exchange-traded funds to engage in securities lending transactions as an additional revenue source...

Bank of Japan: Fintech the future for financial services
25 August 2016 Tokyo
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Blockchain and artificial intelligence are likely to play a large part in financial services in the future, according to the governor of the Bank of Japan...

ECB proposes shadow banking tax
25 August 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The European Central Bank has proposed the introduction of a tax on ‘shadow banking’ profits in order to check the growth of the controversial alternative financing industry...