Posts by Finadium Editorial Team

Bloomberg: BoC’s Macklem says Canada repo stress caused by bond demand

ECB’s SESFOD shows credit T&Cs defied tightening predictions in Q4

People moves: Ares, BlackRock, CFTC, Eurex, Goldman Sachs, GSR, Hazeltree, J.P. Morgan, State Street

Reuters: Wall Street explores novel ways to repackage bank loan risk

Clearstream: settlement fail rates down 90% yoy in 2023

ESMA reviews cross-border CSD activity: “certain services” including collateral expected to increase

Obligate issues eNote for Asian on-chain asset platform paid out in USDC

Repo clearing: the key to resource efficiency

DTCC reports 69% affirmation rate on trade date but 90% is goal

EquiLend NGT back online after ransomware attack

FIA Tech sets up joint team with eClerx to catch trade breaks in real-time

ESMA’s Ross says financial system shows “high level resilience” amid elevated interest rates

ESMA steps up AIF monitoring and warns on leverage and liquidity mismatches

Gulf News: UAE makes first CBDC transaction to China using mBridge

WFE identifies governance of “entire financial ecosystem” in 2024 priorities

FS-ISAC: “limited impact” from EquiLend cyber attack, market goes manual where needed

ICMA publishes 2023-year end analysis for European repo market

Mosaic: 2/3 of investment banks struggle with data quality and integrity

Nu Quantum and CISCO to create prototype quantum rack for data centers

Business Times: CSRC suspends securities lending for locked-up stock

Banking & Finance Post: quantum computing-as-a-service with focus on finance

Fed and BoE outline wholesale CBDC progress

OCC taps Vermiculus microservice-based tech for new platform

Baton Systems: BoE’s ambitious wholesale payments plan puts RTGS at “beating heart” of UK financial system

IOSCO seeks feedback on post trade risk reduction services

ICMA and ASIFMA release APAC ex-Japan repo market survey

S3 Partners: US equity stock borrow financing costs at $6.9 billion/year

S&P Global publishes beneficial owner data dashboard

Eurex publishes report: Repo Trading & Clearing 2023/2024

People moves round-up: ECB, Federated Hermes, FINMA, Investec, Jupiter, OCC, Pirum, Prescient, SEB, UBS, WISF

UK FCA publishes financial quantum security report

Swissquote partners with Sharegain for securities lending ex-US

Raymond James taps Velocity Clearing for prime broker services

ISDA and FIA respond to MAS capital amendments

Automating causal discovery for factor investing using LLMs

BMLL historical datasets now available via Snowflake

ION’s Lab49 and interop.io partner for trader desktop modernization

EquiLend: restoration of service may take several days after cyber incident

Bloomberg: China and Hong Kong agree to open on-shore repo market

FSB to look at NBFI leverage and repo markets in 2024 work program

Evident’s Mousavizadeh on Davos signals for “AI realists”

BoE’s seclending committee mulls T+1 timing, tax and short selling regulation

CME and DTCC announce enhanced cross-margining go-live

CSA proposal on crypto assets rules out securities financing and collateral

Tradeweb acquires UST and IR futures trading tech provider r8fin for $125mn

Reuters: repo market entering a perfect storm for upheaval

LCH RepoClear SA launches its first €GCPlus green basket

AIMA warns on imminent US cybersecurity rules

Fed adds First Citizens to SRF counterparties

BoE: QE can reduce the cost of borrowing in the repo market