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Transcend reduces margin requirements with connectivity to OCC

21 October 2021 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Transcend enhances its CCP Central service, which streamlines margin and collateral management activities, to offer connectivity to the Options Clearing Corporation, helping clients meet margin requirements

Paul Rennison joins deltaconX

21 October 2021 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

deltaconX AG has hired Paul Rennison as director of product management at its London office

State Street announces first trades through P2P repo platform

20 October 2021 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

Peer-to-peer repo programme supports overnight and term repo trades between participating buy-side firms, with State Street offering guarantee for trades that meet programme requirements

State Street reveals new head of Australia and head of Singapore and South Asia

20 October 2021 Singapore
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Tim Helyar is appointed head of Australia and Kevin Hardy as head of Singapore and Southeast Asia for State Street

BoE begins CCP supervisory stress test

20 October 2021 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

UK central bank will model credit and liquidity resilience of UK-registered CCPs under stress conditions, alongside impact on wider financial system

FSB installs Andrew Bailey as SRC chair

19 October 2021 Switzerland
Reporter: Bob Currie

Bank of England governor becomes chair of the Financial Stability Board's supervisory and regulatory cooperation standing committee, with Saudi central bank governor and FDIC chair also becoming committee heads

AFME calls for review of capital buffer framework after COVID-19 crisis

19 October 2021 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe is investigating the implications of the pandemic for the Basel capital buffer framework and the hesitancy from banks to draw on their capital buffers during COVID-19