Posts by Finadium Editorial Team

GANs for synthetic financial data make “considerable progress”

Broadridge Launches DLT Repo platform to Execute First Bilateral Repo Trades Using Smart Contracts

Barclays: Reddit traders have scared away many short sellers following massive squeezes in meme stocks

LexisNexis: fincrime compliance costs to reach $213.9bn in 2021, hit US and W. Europe harder

BIS survey shows 1/4 of central banks weighing interoperability functions by forming multi-CBDC arrangements

ISDA’s O’Malia urges widescale adoption of CRIF and CDM for risk data

Bank of England blog: Where is IFRS 9 taking the cost of funding of banks?

Fed working paper: The Internal Capital Markets of Global Dealer Banks

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TreasurySpring raises $10mn led by MMC Ventures and Anthemis

Natixis, SIX Digital Exchange to join central banks and BIS Innovation Hub for wholesale CBDC experiment

Basel Committee consults on prudential treatment of cryptoasset exposures

G7 Pensions Forum: expert warns on “quantitative naivety” of financial industry

Funds Europe: tech and data infrastructure, ESG compliance top asset manager investment priorities

State Street launches new division for digital finance

Clearstream linking to Saudi’s CSD and settlement system via HSBC custodian

Eurex’s repo market flat at €80.8bn, GC pooling up slightly at €54.4 billion MoM in May

Etrading Software and ANNA team up for digital asset standards

FICC files to expand Sponsored Repo service to GC

A reasonably good article from the FT on ETFs and securities lending

BPI: Take-up at the Federal Reserve’s ON RRP Facility: Much Larger and More Persistent than Planned, Getting Larger, and the Reasons Why

Bloomberg: Nomura Prime Brokerage Cuts to Spare Little in U.S., Europe

Morgan Stanley partners with Microsoft for cloud overhaul

Broadridge on securities lending recalls and ESG

FT: Paris and Berlin lead fight to dilute Brussels’ stricter bank capital rules

DASH launches risk and allocation tools

Reuters: El Salvador approves first law for bitcoin as legal tender

FINRA proposes major new changes to short selling disclosure rules

Oxford-Man: accelerating training of advanced price prediction models with IPUs

BIS: “minimally invasive” design for CBDCs and the trade-off for central banks

BoE outlines CBDC progress and strategy after industry feedback

ESMA posts net short position notification limits for sovereign debt

Paper: Sovereign Immunity in Repo and Derivative Documentation: When to Worry – What to Do

ESMA launches 2021 CCP stress test

Software advocacy group calls for AI legislation, publishes framework to mitigate risk of bias

MLEX: US Fed aims to adopt last Basel III part by January 2023 with ‘capital neutral’ calibrations across system

IIAC’s Russell: tech advances in dealer platforms boosted 2020 performance

ESRB: A quantitative analysis of the countercyclical capital buffer

CME Group Launches FTSE 100 Adjusted Interest Rate Total Return Futures

Schroder, Aon among participants in first volcano CAT bond cleared on blockchain

FISL 2021: What Beneficial Owners Need to Know Now About Securities Lending

FISL 2021: Are You Ready for a US Buy-Side CCP in Securities Lending?

FISL 2021: Cash Reinvestment and Interest Rate Strategy

FISL 2021: Corporate Governance Best Practices

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Blockchain fintech Circle raises $440mn as USDC hits $22bn in circulation

IHS Markit releases seclending compliance tool for beneficial owners

FISL 2021: Hedge Fund Financing and Funding Trends

FISL 2021: The European and Asian Securities Lending Markets

Fed’s Quarles doubles down on tailoring and no Countercyclical Capital Buffer