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TASE to create blockchain securities lending platform
17 May 2018 Tel Aviv
Reporter: Brian Bollen

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), professional services group Accenture and global financial technology innovation centre The Floor, are to develop a new blockchain securities lending platform powered by Intel

Deutsche Börse and Clearstream to launch Acceleration platform
16 May 2018 Frankfurt
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Deutsche Börse Group and its post-trade services provider Clearstream, will partner with financial technology firms, figo and Finologee to create the Acceleration platform

Gildas Le Treut moves to Societe Generale
16 May 2018 Paris
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Societe Generale has appointed Gildas Le Treut as managing director of coverage

Top of hot stocks: Shop Apotheke Europe and GOGO Inc
16 May 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Shop Apotheke Europe, a Netherlands-based pharmacy and personal products retailer, made its debut on the FIS Astec Analytics hot stocks list for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa last week

Aufrichtig to leave HSBC South Africa
15 May 2018 Johannesburg
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Ryan Aufrichtig is leaving his role as head of prime finance South Africa at HSBC

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Hutchings to leave ISLA
15 May 2018 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Mark Hutchings is due to leave the International Securities Lending Association

IHS Markit: US gaming stocks soar on US Supreme Court decision
15 May 2018 New York
Reporter: Brian Bollen

Stocks related to gambling in the US have received a jolt as the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 to overturn the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, which essentially banned sports betting in states where it wasn’t already legal

ITG: Introduction of DVC has seen an emergence of different venue profiles
15 May 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Dark caps created “a more fragmented, and likely more challenging, liquidity landscape for capped securities compared with non-capped ones”, according to an April report by ITG, a financial technology firm

Ted Eliopoulos to leave CalPERS
15 May 2018 Sacramento
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Eliopoulos will continue to lead the fund through 2018 during transition

CME to list USD Eris interest rate swap futures
14 May 2018 Chicago
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

CME Group and Eris Exchange, a US-based futures exchange group, have entered into a licensing agreement to list USD Eris Interest rate swap futures

SG CIB appoints new head of equities
14 May 2018 Paris
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking has appointed Alexandre Fleury as head of equities and equity derivatives within global markets

Savers miss out as interest rates stagnate
11 May 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Savers miss out again as interest rates stagnate, according to Angus Dent, CEO, ArchOver