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Catena completes SFTR testing with REGIS-TR

30 April 2019 Singapore
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Catena Technologies has completed the early testing of its trade reporting platform with REGIS-TR for SFTR Regulation reporting

Hazeltree introduces new securities finance solution

30 April 2019 New York
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Hazeltree has introduced Hazeltree Securities Finance Version 7, a portfolio finance solution integrated with new market colour, benchmark and intra-day rates, and utilisation trends

Michael Baker joins MarketAxess

30 April 2019 New York
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Michael Baker has joined MarketAxess as CTO, effective immediately

Chawton picks Northern Trust for brokerage and custody services

30 April 2019 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Chawton Global Investors, a newly-launched global equity fund manager, has chosen Northern Trust to provide its brokerage and global custody services

Banca IMI joins LCH CDSClear

29 April 2019 Paris
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Banca IMI has joined LCH’s CDSClear as the first Italian clearing member

Q1 2019 sees reduced earnings for major programme providers

29 April 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Major programme providers have reported reduced earnings in Q1 2019 compared with Q1 2018, with reasons ranging from regulatory balance sheet constraints to absence of specials activity, says ISLA CEO

Catena extends UnaVista partnership to include SFTR

29 April 2019 Singapore
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Catena Technologies has extended its collaboration with UnaVista to help firms prepare for SFTR

EquiLend and Trax SFTR test environment now live

26 April 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

EquiLend and Trax are now live with its Securities Finance Transactions Regulation (SFTR) test environment.

CSOP selects Citi’s agency sec lending product

26 April 2019 Hong Kong
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Hong Kong’s CSOP Asset Management has chosen Citi’s agency securities lending product to drive higher returns on idle asset holdings

BME sees rise in repo trades for Q1 2019

26 April 2019 Madrid
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

A total of 553 trades with fixed-income securities (repos) were cleared by BME in the first quarter of 2018, up 3.9 percent year-on-year