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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...

Russia’s NSD earns first ‘premier' status from SWIFT
21 September 2016 Moscow
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Russia’s central securities depository, the National Settlement Depository, has become the first Eastern European bureau to earn SWIFT’s 'premier' certification status...

Celer and itarle pair up on executions
20 September 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

itarle has paired with Celer Technologies to make to make its algorithmic execution strategies available multi-asset order management and execution management platform...

BNY Mellon to test real-time payment service
20 September 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BNY Mellon has upped the ante in the race to achieve efficient real time payments by becoming one of the first participants to incorporate the Real-Time Payment system being developed by The Clearing House...

Homebuilders hammered by short sellers
19 September 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Homebuilders have been singled out by short sellers in the week of their earnings announcements, according to IHS Markit...

Lombard Risk and Razor Risk team up for margin calls
19 September 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Lombard Risk Management has strengthened its partnership with TMX Market Insights | Razor Risk with the launch of a new joint solution for margin calculation and analytics...

Gibraltar exchange gains HMRC recognition
16 September 2016 Gibraltar
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Gibraltar Stock Exchange has been acknowledged by the board of the UK’s HM Revenue & Customs as a ‘recognised stock exchange’...