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Bank of England research highlights benefits of central clearing in gilts repo markets

05 June 2023 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

Drawing on quantitative data from recent liquidity shocks, a BoE working paper evaluates how wider central clearing could extend dealers’ capacity to intermediate repo markets

Kamal departs from Wealthsimple to launch firm

05 June 2023 Canada
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Farah Kamal has departed from her role as director of new investment products at Wealthsimple to launch a new product and consulting firm

OCC cleared securities lending volumes rise 4.4% YoY for May

05 June 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The total securities lending volumes cleared on the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) platform have increased 4.4 per cent year-on-year to 212,269 trades for May 2023

Harris joins Transcend

05 June 2023 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

New Jersey-based financial service provider Transcend has appointed Emily Harris as a product specialist. She is based in the UK

Wematch launches new digital workflows for trade desks

02 June 2023 UK
Reporter: SFT

With the addition of two new modules to its digitised dealing workflow platform, the Financial Resource Management Optimiser and Total Return Swaps Cash Flow Management solution, Wematch aims to deliver greater efficiency to sec finance trading

Global securities lending revenue up 15% YoY for May, reports DataLend

02 June 2023 US
Reporter: SFT

The global securities finance industry delivered US$1.06 billion in lending revenue in May 2023, a small rise on the US$1.05 billion in revenue generated for lenders during April 2023

Lack of market discussions on recall cutoffs a “main concern” for T+1 move, says Yared

01 June 2023 Canada
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

A lack of discussion between all market participants on securities lending recall cutoff times has become a main concern during the move to T+1, according to Mathilda Yared, managing director of global securities finance at National Bank of Canada

Gehrhardt departs from Bloomberg

01 June 2023 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Clare Gehrhardt has departed from her role as head of business development for Bloomberg’s Regulatory Reporting Services after three years with the firm

ESMA releases its fifth CCP stress testing exercise

01 June 2023 EU, UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

In line with ESMA’s legal mandate under EMIR, this exercise will assess the resilience of CCPs to adverse market shocks and the danger that failure of a CCP or clearing member can propagate risk across the financial system

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