Posts by Finadium Editorial Team

HSBC and Terra to apply hybrid quantum tech to collateral optimization

Fried Frank: trade groups reiterate opposition to SEC’s 10B-1 proposal

Fenergo: regulatory penalties plunge 88% yoy in H1 2023

Blackberry Cyber team publishes threat intelligence report

S&P Global: securities lending revenues flat at $1.1bn in August

ECB releases climate stress test results, urges accelerating green investment

BrokerTec’s US repo ADV up 8% yoy at $292bn in August

FSB outlines policy responses for hedge fund-prime broker leverage risk

Reuters: rising demand for Fed’s BTFP stems from “opportunistic money management strategies”

Tradeweb repo volumes up 33.1% to $491.9bn in August

Shared ledger network RLN reports on repo use case in UK “discovery phase”

DataLend: global seclending revenue up 8% yoy to $945mn in August

OCC stock loan volumes up 16% yoy to $139.8bn in August

NIST publishes paper on stablecoin tech and security considerations

CCMA T+1 update: TMX developing securities lending portal

Acadia launches derivatives pricing education initiative with Northeastern U

ECB’s Panetta flags “critical blind spots” to the CMU

WFE publishes research on exchange engagement with crypto markets

Germany’s NORD/LB goes live with upgraded MX.3 platform

Eurex Repo volumes up 49% to €358bn while GC Pooling spikes 243% yoy in August

EquiLend taps SSImple for SSI repository and management

ESMA outlines framework for MMF liquidity challenges

New Zealand Super buys 4.99% stake in Euroclear

Fed flags return of basis trade on hedge funds’ Treasury futures and repo positions

People Moves: Delta Capita, LCH, SSImple

NIST consults on non-fungible token securities

Tradeweb completes acquisition of Yieldbroker

ICMA creates GMRA clause library and taxonomy

Swift releases results of tokenization experiments involving major financial players

ISLA publishes H1 report on market dynamics and SFTR data

FCA weighs industry competition concerns in wholesale data markets

ESMA’s TRV shows market-based finance picking up in H1

Euroclear and Korea’s CSD sign omnibus agreement

Wematch platform passes $200bn for TRS volumes in August

NIST to standardize quantum-resistant encryption algos

Clear Street’s Masotti on repo pricing after Jackson Hole

Broadridge partners with Maybank IB for Shariah-compliant securities lending on Malaysia bourse

Xinhua: China to lower minimum margin ratio of financing for securities purchases

St. Louis Fed: Fed balance sheet actions and optimal levels for QT-II

People Moves: FIS, HQLA^X, Northern Trust, S&P Global

The Street: El Salvador’s bonds see 70% return after bitcoin adopted as legal tender

Large banks and EquiLend settle stock loan lawsuit for $500 million

QSE launches covered short selling and SLB activities

Bloomberg: OpenAI’s eyeball-scanning Worldcoin project faces regulatory scrutiny

Elliptic: MAS sets out stablecoin and issuer regulation

CPMI-IOSCO report on resources and tools for CCPs to address non-default losses

Zerocap: overcoming limits of smart contracts and DAO governance using TradFi example

Coinbase takes equity stake in Circle, axes governance consortium on regulatory clarity

Comotto: are we heading for regulatory imposition of increased collateral haircuts?

Citi survey shows 80% of respondents expect seclending impact from T+1