Posts by Finadium Editorial Team

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

CLS and Finastra team up for buy-side and corporate netting services

ASIFMA: Hong Kong/Singapore markets need electronic solutions to overcome COVID operational challenges

S&P Global and IHS Markit announce merger

UK PRA expects to publish CRD V policy in mid-December

CNBC: Goldman, J.P. Morgan using drones for M&A reconnaissance

ICMA: Ghana’s repo market reforms can be “blueprint” for seclending and derivatives

ECB: banks to start self-assessment reporting for climate risk in early 2021

Pirum enhances JPM tri-party connectivity to facilitate Dual Matching of RQVs

Bank of England research on ring-fencing and bank funding structures

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J.P. Morgan is first validation agent in Global LEI system

Medium: four reasons why hyping AI is an ethical problem

FT: UK grip on European derivatives at risk in fight over post-Brexit rules

Colombia bourse to use blockchain for OTC derivatives collateral

DTCC launches insurance data analysis pilot program

BIS research suggests “embedded” supervision for stablecoins/CBDCs

SGX, Aquis and AWS complete PoC validating low-latency markets can be cloud-hosted

Nasdaq CCP tech investment highlights cloud, APIs

WSJ: CCB pulls $3 billion short-term debt sale on blockchain after scrutiny

Fed blog finds concentration of bank reserves in March 2020

ECB working group on euro risk-free rates consults on Euribor fallbacks

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RMA: shape of model risk management to come

CACM: AI should go “green” by considering compute cost in research

First electronic SOFR vs Fed Funds compression trade executed via Bloomberg SEF

DTCC research shows 20-25% cost savings from post-trade automation

BNY Mellon: China CBDC progress implications “huge”, but RoW wary