Posts by Finadium Editorial Team

South Korea announces major crackdown on illegal short selling, including jail

Barclays ESG annual highlights growing role of alt-data and real-time tech

Standard Chartered and Northern Trust launching crypto custody in 2021

Connexxion Markets launches cloud-based securities finance liquidity solution

MarketAxess launches centralized fixed income market with US Treasury liquidity

OpenFin chalks up $50mn funding to date as SC Ventures latest to invest

Shoosmiths: CFTC adopts principles-based mindset for finalized electronic trading rules

20 fintechs sign up for interface certification on DTCC’s central matching engine

Calypso, FIS, Google and Murex among 8 tech firms licensing ISDA’s SA benchmarking unit test

SIX and SBI to set up digital asset JV in Singapore for 2022 go-live

BIS: enabling open finance through APIs

BBH survey shows asset managers 30% more likely to outsource in 2020

TORA integrates pre-trade bond market data from Neptune into OEMS

European Commission issues consultation on CSDR

Bloomberg: Traders Quit Banks to Earn $4.8 Million Hedge Fund Salaries in Brazil

Canadian securities regulators seek comment on activist short selling

Deutsche Bank and Google Cloud partner for advanced tech deployment

DSB to consult on fee model for UPI in 2021

MIT TR: Fired Google researcher highlighted risks of AI and large language models

High-frequency expectations from asset prices using reinforcement learning

AFX starts executing AMERIBOR interest rate swaps

FSOC report targets non-bank financial institutions in US repo

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SEC spinning out FinHub as stand-alone office

US Senate approves Christopher Waller to the Federal Reserve Board

Brookings: ex-OFR Director on a US strategy for financial data analytics

Business Korea: Korea Securities Finance Corp aims to increase individual stock lending limits

BIS, Swiss National Bank and SIX detail wholesale CBDC experiment “Helvetia”

Tradeweb’s repo ADV spikes 68.5% to $330.4bn in November YoY

BoE supervision of financial market infrastructures – annual report 2020

FT: Credit Suisse’s Zoltan Pozsar on the Swiss National Bank’s role in global bank funding

BlackRock adds climate risk data to Aladdin, expands ESG data with vendor partners

MarketAxess completes acquisition of Deutsche Börse’s regulatory reporting hub

Bloomberg: China’s regulators vow “special oversight” of fintech giants after halting Ant IPO

HSBC launches new custody and fund admin model for TTF securities lending

OCC’s securities lending CCP volume up 11.5% in November 2020 year over year

DTCC: COVID-19 cited as top risk to financial stability in 2021

Deutsche Börse completes majority stake purchase of Quantitative Brokers

Researchers link Robinhood herding to future negative returns in “Top Mover” stocks

FactSet: identifying pre-trade sanctions to mitigate reputational and financial risk

Reuters: bitcoin surges to all-time high on perceived safe haven, inflation hedge demand

InfoReach taps QuantHouse’s API for trade management system

TORA’s OEMS integrates with Liquidnet’s IA Trader for AI and data analytics

Saudi and UAE central banks release results of joint CBDC project

Basel oversight group marks end of Basel III, supports measured drawdowns of reserves during stress periods

Banco de España: application of text mining to climate-related disclosures

ECB: nowcasting using machine learning for economic regime prediction

Fintech Blueprint: “Bill Gross” of crypto fixed income Yearn in flurry of mergers

Fed releases Sept 2020 SCOOS with focus on reserve balances

Regulators plan for phased end of LIBOR starting December 31, 2021