Posts by Finadium Editorial Team

BIS paper weighs policies as financial services “rebundling” benefits bigtechs

AtlasVPN: 31% of US companies close down after falling victim to ransomware

ESMA warns on zero-commission practices and that PFOF is “unlikely” to be MiFID-compatible

Verafide launches UK’s first open source digital ID on SETL blockchain

Eurekahedge: AI funds flat, crypto funds down 13.3% in June 2021

MathWorks: model validation is everybody’s business

SESFOD March-May: collateral financing conditions ease significantly while funding demand weakens

Reuters: JPMorgan creates new data business in its securities services division

ESMA launches public consultations on CCP recovery regime

Paper: Federal Reserve’s balance-sheet normalization from 2017-2019 increased repo rate distortions

Sri Lanka’s Colombo Stock Exchange introduces repo trading

ESMA fines DTCC Data Repository €408,000 for EMIR data breaches

Paper: Synthetic leverage and fund risk-taking in German equity funds

BNP Paribas boosts ESG data and analytics with Moody’s fintechs

Banque de France/MAS complete wholesale mCBDC experiment with automated marketmaking and support from Onyx

UK Prudential Regulatory Authority publishes near-final implementation of Basel standards

Bloomberg: Philippine Bourse CEO Hopeful Short Selling Will Start This Year

Hudson Fintech platform available to Oracle financial clients after 1066NOW partnership

Tradeweb Announces First Fully Electronic SOFR Swap Spread Trade

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CR: security tokenization next “killer” blockchain app, $9.5tn invested by 2025

SocGen, Caceis, Euroclear, Axa among partners with fintech LiquidShare and Banque de France in CBDC experiment

Reuters: Japan’s Nomura plans to suspend part of cash-prime brokerage business

Tradeweb’s repo ADV up 53.6% YoY to $366.4bn in June 2021

BrokerTec reports EU repo average daily notional of €301.0B for Q2 2021

SteelEye: “integrated surveillance” favored by regulators, requires advanced tech strategies

UCLA blog: radical empiricism is a bad strategy for machine learning research

Swedish bank Erik Penser picks Macrobond for market analysis

Schroders, OSI invest in data tech firm that measures “natural capital”

OCC seclending CCP loan value up 69.5% in June 2021 year over year

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FinOps Report: SEC should allow broker-dealers to use third-party custodian for crypto

Basel Committee finalizes technical amendments for SFT minimum haircut floors

DataLend: global securities lending up 17% to $4.5 billion yoy in H1 2021

IHS Markit enhances securities processing tech for cash penalty regime under CSDR

FinCEN and US agencies flag upcoming regulatory changes for AML/CFT

Digital token reference data registry goes live

Fitch warns on systemic risk of collateralized stablecoins

ISLA: Securities Lending MVP Merged into the CDM

FINRA orders Robinhood to pay $70mn for supervisory failures and customer harm

ITSA publishes “fork-resilient” token identifier documentation

FSB seeks feedback on its policy proposals to enhance money market fund resilience

Provable Markets Partners with DTCC on their Forthcoming SFT Clearing Service

European Commission agrees to review CSDR settlement discipline regime

NIST sets out framework for reducing AI bias risk

FinOptSys raises $2.1M in oversubscribed seed round led by Appia Ventures

Sharegain launches latest borrowing platform

UK FPC and PRA propose extensions to the UK Leverage Ratio

South Korea’s Tru Technologies announces Series A investment of US$3.1M

Crédit Agricole CIB partners with quantum tech firms for financial apps