Posts by Finadium Editorial Team

SmartStream develops derivatives component for MiFID SI regime

Risk: BofA becomes first US bank to adopt SA-CCR

Monetary Authority of Singapore Enhances Access to Liquidity Facilities to Strengthen Banking Sector Resilience

ICMA publishes a briefing note on CSDR mandatory buy-ins and the requirement to appoint a buy-in agent

IHS Markit and Tokyo Stock Exchange to combine securities finance data sets

Tosho and Torstone team up for Japan CSD cloud connectivity

ISLA publishes industry guidance for securities lending performance measurement

FSB extends implementation timelines for securities financing transactions

Forbis: EU’s open banking project requires changes to avoid “total failure”

California fintech buys bank to roll out T-bill spending platform

Federal Reserve slightly adjusts stress tests results for Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs

MIT platform helps prioritize cybersecurity costs and returns

Global Peer Financing Association adds Australian Super, CalSTRS and Thrivent Financial

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Standard Chartered joins Rigetti’s £10mn UK consortium for commercial quantum

BoE’s Andrew Bailey: “reinventing the wheel with more automation”

Tradeweb’s repo ADV up 18.1% YoY to $246bn in August

Scotiabank, BMO to test Xanadu’s photonic quantum computer in cloud

Swiss fintech CREALOGIX to provide customer portal for German bank consortium

Stradley Ronon: New DOL Rule Proposal Risks Chilling Proxy Voting and Shareholder Engagement

European associations warn industry not ready for SRD II launch

Apex partners with Calypso on custody services to Ardent Financial

ESMA sees high risk of decoupling of financial market performance and underlying economic activity

TriOptima Extends Collaboration with AcadiaSoft to Improve Industry Standard for Collateral Interest Payments Processing

OCC securities lending CCP volume down 4.3% in August 2020 year over year

Bobsguide: vendors facing an uncertain future with CSDR delay

Dutch regulator: transparency in fixed income and derivatives pricing needs improvement

Korea central bank seeks partner for CBDC pilot

European CCP association responds to ESMA on cloud regulations

SGX, HSBC, Temasek complete first digital bond issuance

BIS research finds big data could decrease significance of collateral

Riverlane announces commercial quantum breakthrough

IIROC estimates $500mn industry savings from self-regulatory organization consolidation

People’s Bank of China promotes repo as benchmark interest rate

Regulation Asia: Brokers Push Back Against ASIC Proposal to Limit CFD Leverage

BBVA and Multiverse use quantum computing to optimize portfolios, improve returns

South Korea extends short selling ban for six months

Vanguard reorganizes Prime Money Market Fund into a government money fund

ESMA postpones CSDR settlement discipline until February 2022

Federal Open Market Committee announces approval of updates to its Statement on Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy

US regulators provide flexibility to banks adopting CECL in 2020

Reuters: Vietnam considers introducing equities short-selling

Thailand SEC requests comments on plan to allow retail investor access to repo and reverse repo

Nikkei Asian Review: Japan Securities Finance buys 10% stake in Pendanaan Efek Indonesia

UK Prudential Regulation Authority terminates risks-not-in-VAR temporary measure

SGX Partners with Cassini Systems on UMR

ConsenSys acquires Ethereum blockchain platform from J.P. Morgan

NIST releases impact analysis tool for federal agencies’ cyber supply chain risks

BIS: rise of the central bank digital currencies

Swiss neobank SEBA and Singapore fintech Lightnet sign MoU for settlement in fiat and digital currencies