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SFTR RTS expected in Q4

12 January 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The final draft of the regulatory technical standards of the Securities Financing Transaction Regulation is not expected to be released until Q4 2017, according to International Securities Lending Association...

EXCLUSIVE: The Field Effect snaps up Barnard

11 January 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Specialist consultancy firm The Field Effect has appointed Mark Barnard as a senior consultant...

EXCLUSIVE: Davies to head BGC Partners sales

11 January 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BGC Partners has brought on Grant Davies to head up the sales team of its new collateral platform, COLLEX...

Bloomberg builds collateral management platform

11 January 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Bloomberg's MARS Collateral Management solution has secured HSBC Private Bank and more than a dozen corporations and financial institutions as clients...

ICMA: ECB sec lending must expand

11 January 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The International Capital Market Association has reaffirmed its calls for the European Central Bank to expand its securities lending facility in response to the extension of the central bank’s asset purchase programme...

DTCC advances DLT post-trade platform with IBM

New York 10 January 2017
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has partnered with IBM to develop a “watershed moment” in the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) for derivatives post-trade processing...

SIX finds new chair in Lacher

10 January 2017 Zurich
Reporter: Drew Nicol

SIX has given its interim board chair, Romeo Lacher, the position full-time with immediate effect...

Hong Kong trader spared jail for shorting violation

09 January 2017 Hong Kong
Reporter: Drew Nicol

A Hong Kong-based trader has avoided jail after being reprimanded for uncovered short selling violations...

SwapClear reveals record-breaking 2016

09 January 2017 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

LCH’s SwapClear service saw a record high in interest rate derivatives cleared in 2016, processing a total of over $665 trillion in 3.8 million trades...

EU confirms CCP parity for six markets

09 January 2017 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The European Commission has recognised the regulatory standard of central counterparties based in six global markets as being EU equivalent...

Northern Trust expands capital markets team

09 January 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Northern Trust has expanded its global capital markets team with the appointment of Craig Blackbourn as head of transition management for Europe, the Middle East and Africa...

SEC settles first-of-its-kind shorting suit

06 January 2017 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has settled a first-of-its-kind cease-and-desist proceedings against the senior management of Wilson-Davis & Co, a Utah-based broker-dealer, for short selling violations...

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