Posts by Finadium Editorial Team

WT: banks’ appetite for multi-cloud dampened by costs, security

Bloomberg: Vast DOJ Probe Looks at Almost 30 Short-Selling Firms and Allies

BoE Securities Lending Committee minutes November 2021

Boston Fed and MIT research CBDC models in Project Hamilton

Multiverse and Xanadu team up for financial quantum software

Tradeweb’s repo ADV up 5.5% yoy to $346.5bn in January

Pirum launches its new RepoConnect product

OCC stock loan transaction volume up 57.6% year-over-year for January 2022

DataLend: seclending revenue down 12% yoy to $703mn in January

BrokerTec US Repo ADNV up 29% to $269bn in January yoy

IHS Markit officially launches CRITR and CRITS benchmarks for credit sensitive US rates

Canada’s OSFI completes Basel III reforms, releases final capital and liquidity rules

ESMA says that clearing obligations should apply to pension scheme arrangements

BIS working paper: Money markets, collateral and monetary policy

ISLA Publishes CSDR Penalties Best Practice Guidelines

ICMA ERCC: Optimising settlement efficiency

Bloomberg: Citi analysts says basis trade to make a comeback

Paper: Does Mandatory Short Selling Disclosure Lead to Investor Herding Behavior?

Lux bourse admits first DLT-issued securities from SocGen

Business Daily: Kenya inches closer to securities lending platform after successful testing

Pirum upgrades Claims Manager to support CSDR claims

Euroclear invests in Belgian ESG fintech Greenomy

OpenGamma raises $21mn led by Allianz X for automating treasury

Reuters: Foreign banks face bigger capital bill under draft EU plan

tZERO’s blockhain-based exchange BSTX JV gets SEC approval

Fireblocks raises $550 million for DeFi, crypto custody buildout

Rigetti selected for phase 2 of DARPA’s ONISQ project

ESMA amends SFTR Q&A on settlement fail reporting

IHS Markit Partners with METACO to Provide a Unified Post-Trade Processing Solution for Digital and Traditional Assets

Buy-side firms now able to offset margins on futures and swaps cleared at Eurex

UBS to acquire automated wealth management tech firm in US for $1.4bn

Amundi Technology taps Causality Link for ESG indicators

ESRB recommends establishing pan-European cyber coordination

FT and Bloomberg: hedge funds profiting from shorting green stocks and SPACs

ESMA consults on CCP anti-procyclicality measures

Eventus to provide trade surveillance for regulated Canadian crypto platform Bitbuy

Building the digital future for financial instruments

SWIFT study shows UTI leads to major reduction in fails and exceptions

SEC Proposes Amendments to Enhance Private Fund Reporting on Form PF

SEC Proposes Amendments to Include Significant Treasury Markets Platforms Within Regulation ATS

Paper: Special Repo Rates and the Cross-Section of Bond Prices: The Role of the Special Collateral Risk Premium

Highlights from the minutes of the ESMA euro risk-free rates WG Meeting 3 December 2021

ESMA publishes statement on how to report short positions between 28 Jan and 31 Jan 2022

ISSA: pandemic lessons reveal need for automation strategies in securities services

Media sources: DeFi collateral liquidations spike, MakerDAO revenue surges on penalty fees

SEC’s Gensler suggests regulatory oversight of vendors to boost markets’ cyber defense

SEC approves hard to borrow risk setting at CBOE exchanges

Fed releases US CBDC discussion paper

ISDA’s O’Malia flags crypto derivative standards as priority

Broadridge connects to DTCC’s automated corporate actions submission service