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Goddard retires
16 February 2026 UK
Reporter: Hansa Tote

Adam Goddard has retired after 37 years in the financial industry, leaving his position at Forvis Mazars US as senior manager

SFC boosts Hong Kong’s digital asset market
13 February 2026 Hong Kong
Reporter: Hansa Tote

As part of its latest measures to expand product and service diversity under the ASPIRe Roadmap, the SFC is enabling virtual asset brokers to offer virtual asset financing to their securities margin clients

CASLA appoints D’Eramo
13 February 2026 Canada
Reporter: Hansa Tote

Samantha D’Eramo is assistant vice president at State Street Markets, and has been chosen as coordinator on the Canadian Securities Lending Association’s executive team

CMU OmniClear welcomes CBUAE as a member
13 February 2026 Hong Kong
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Through CMU, CBUAE and investors in the UAE will gain direct access to debt capital markets in Hong Kong Mainland China via the Bond Connect scheme

Hazeltree: Global hedge funds experienced volatility in January
13 February 2026 Global
Reporter: Hansa Tote

The monthly report provides a look back at hedge fund long and short crowdedness across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, based on Hazeltree’s analysis of anonymised data from approximately 16,000 securities

Oegerli nominated as Leonteq’s chairman
13 February 2026 Switzerland
Reporter: Hansa Tote

Felix Oegerli brings more than 30 years of leadership experience in the financial industry, with a strong focus on capital markets, sales, and trading

UK digital gilt programme moves forward
12 February 2026 UK
Reporter: Matthew Challis

HSBC has been appointed as the platform provider for DIGIT, which was initially announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in November 2024, with Ashurst set to provide legal services for the digital pilot

Wematch.live surpasses US$1.64 trillion
12 February 2026 UK, US, France
Reporter: Hansa Tote

The figure represents 2 per cent month-on-month growth and an 84 per cent increase year-on-year, following a period of rapid acceleration for the firm

Hang Seng Bank joins PASLA
12 February 2026 Hong Kong
Reporter: Hansa Tote

The firm provides customer-centric banking, investment and wealth management services for individuals and businesses, and is a principal member of the HSBC Group

Peaks chooses Sharegain to launch securities lending
12 February 2026 UK
Reporter: Hansa Tote

The Dutch online investment platform has partnered with Sharegain to launch ‘Lend & Earn’ which allows customers to generate extra income from their investments

Franklin Templeton and Binance advance strategic collaboration
11 February 2026 US
Reporter: Hansa Tote

The collaboration allows eligible clients to use tokenised money market fund shares issued through Franklin Templeton’s Benji technology platform as off-exchange collateral when trading on Binance

Tokenovate joins Bank of England Synchronisation Lab
09 February 2026 UK
Reporter: Hansa Tote

The lab will support collaborative, exploratory work focused on how synchronised payments through the Bank of England’s Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) service could support the future evolution of wholesale market infrastructure