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ESMA: SFTR draft technical standards will not provide certainty
07 September 2018 Paris
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The SFTR draft technical standards, as proposed by the European Commission, “will not provide certainty, clarity, predictability and consistency”, according to the European Securities and Markets Authority

Roy Zimmerhansl leaves HSBC
06 September 2018 Hong Kong
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

HSBC has confirmed that Roy Zimmerhansl has left his role as global head of securities lending

PGGM: Eurex Clearing is securities lending’s ‘most important innovation’
06 September 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

PGGM sees Eurex Clearing as the “most important innovation” in securities lending in the past few years, according to Roelof van der Struik, investment manager at PGGM

Johnnie Peacock joins FIS
06 September 2018 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Johnnie Peacock has been appointed as post-trade sales and strategic account at FIS, effective September

Hazeltree appoints new head of APAC
05 September 2018 Hong Kong
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Hazeltree, a provider of integrated buy-side treasury management solutions, has appointed Askin Leung as managing director and head of Hazeltree Asia Pacific

Richard Colvill joins ISLA
05 September 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The International Securities Lending Association has appointed Richard Colvill has to work exclusively on the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation

Mixed results at NEX in August
05 September 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

NEX Group show that European repo was up 15 percent year-on-year in August, reaching €261.2 billion

Top of hot stocks: TechnipFMC and Tesla
05 September 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

TechnipFMC led the FIS Astec Analytics hot stocks list for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa last week

OneChicago continues to see volumes decrease
05 September 2018 Chicago
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

OneChicago registered a trading volume of 423,436 for August 2018, a 66 percent decrease year-over-year

KDPW and PKO Bank Polski partner for LEI initiative
05 September 2018 Warsaw
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The Central Securities Depository of Poland and PKO Bank Polski have partnered for a new standard in the issuance and maintenance of legal entity identifier codes

OCC reports volume up 10 percent in August
05 September 2018 Chicago
Reporter: Brian Bollen

OCC has reported that total cleared contract volume in August reached 433,740,316 contracts, an increase of 10 percent compared to last year’s August volume of 395,912,022

SEB to utilise DTCC’s ALERT workflow
04 September 2018 Stockholm
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

SEB will leverage the regional custodian workflow which utilises ALERT for storing SSI data related to fund assets in its custody