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LCH SA RepoClear reports new highs during Q1

12 April 2023 France
Reporter: SFT

Paris-based CCP has seen nominal cleared value for euro-denominated transactions rise 21 per cent YoY to a new high of €65 trillion. This was registered across 3.0 million trades, a 15 per cent increase on Q1 2022

Clear Street attracts US$270 Million in Series B funding

12 April 2023 US
Reporter: SFT

This is the second investment that Prysm Capital has made in Clear Street’s Series B funding, following on from a US$165 million commitment in May 2022, taking the value of the New York-based prime broker to close to US$2 billion

Eurex Repo average daily volume rises 85% YoY for March

05 April 2023 Germany
Reporter: SFT

GC Pooling term-adjusted average daily volumes were up 125 per cent YoY for March to €114.9 billion and special repo has grown 66 per cent YoY to €181.6 billion

OCC cleared securities lending volumes jump 11.2% YoY for March

04 April 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Securities lending volumes cleared on the Options Clearing Corporation platform increased 11.2 per cent year-on-year to 235,633 trades for March 2023

RISCfp introduces managed treasury pool notes

04 April 2023 UK
Reporter: Frances Jones

Financial solutions provider RISCfp has introduced managed treasury pool notes to enable insurers to diversify or reduce their short-term investment risk as they pledge collateral

Komainu launches collateral management solution

04 April 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The new service comes as a response to an industry requirement to reduce counterparty risk by removing the need to store collateral with trading counterparties

Global securities lending revenue rises 27% YoY for Q1 2023, says DataLend

04 April 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The global securities finance industry generated US$2.76 billion in revenue for lenders in Q1 2023, a 27 per cent year-on-year increase, according to DataLend

BoE working paper dissects gilts market crisis

03 April 2023 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Bank of England staff working paper draws on transaction-level data from government bond, repo and IRS markets to evaluate movements in market liquidity, price trends and investor behaviour during the autumn 2022 gilts market upheaval

Genesis offers triparty to institutional clients through BitGo collaboration

30 March 2023 US
Reporter: SFT

BitGo will deliver qualified custody services and cold storage for assets held in safekeeping for Genesis’ institutional clients, combining the asset safety offered by BitGo’s triparty solution with Genesis’ trading capability

RISKGRID launches new cloud-based risk assessment platform

30 March 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The new platform is designed to enable financial services firms to automate and standardise fragmented, cross-enterprise risk assessment practices, says RISKGRID

Citi goes live with Nordnet on its Securities Lending Access platform

29 March 2023 UK, Nordics
Reporter: Bob Currie

This solution brings together Citi’s lending platform with Sharegain technology to digitise the securities lending transaction lifecycle, aiming to democratise lending by extending access to a wider community of investors

Pirum enhances CoacsConnect to automate corporate actions process

28 March 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The next phase of CoacsConnect will fully automate the voluntary corporate action process for the securities finance industry

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