Posts by Finadium Editorial Team

Clearstream picks US fintech to automate trade documentation for funds

Negative US interest rates: FT says Bloomberg telling terminal users to consider Bachelier options model instead of Black-Scholes

ESMA’s working group on euro risk-free rates recommends voluntary compensation for legacy swaption contracts affected by the discounting transition to the €STR

Montréal Exchange Launches CORRA Futures

Bank of Canada becomes administrator of Canadian Overnight Repo Rate Average (CORRA)

FT: CalPERS to adopt up to 20% leverage in new portfolio strategy

IHS Markit, Pirum release report on SFTR for asset managers

KSA uses blockchain tech for liquidity injection to banks

The Block: MakerDAO greenlights first “real-world” assets as collateral

Man Group makes argument for shorting based on ESG

Fed blog: How Fed Swap Lines Supported the U.S. Corporate Credit Market amid COVID-19 Strains

P&I: Lothian adopts automatic recall of stock for annual meeting votes

Fed to slowly raise repo rates

Canada and Taiwan securities regulators sign fintech agreement

CQC: how quantum computing is advancing in finance

Wematch and Pirum Systems announce go-live with Bank of America on their integrated service on Securities Lending

Vanguard completes ABS-blockchain pilot phase with BNY Mellon, Citi, State Street

BoE blog: what role did margin play during the Covid-19 shock?

Willis Towers Watson: when securitization meets blockchain

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FN: Citi combines investment banking units in data science push

Centrally cleared bitcoin ETP lists on Deutsche Börse

Bakkt and Galaxy Digital announce joint trading and custody service for institutional crypto

ESMA renews decision requiring net short position holders to report positions of 0.1%+

Negative leaning WSJ article on securities lending vs. shareholder voting

OneMarketData launches European Composite Trade and Quote database for TCA

Fidelity survey shows institutional crypto gaining, Europe leads US

ESG high on the radar for Bank of England Securities Lending Committee

ECSDA requests postponement of CSDR

Eurekahedge: AI funds flat, crypto funds up 5.9% in May

Aon UK partners with crypto custody firm for insurable digital asset storage tech

BoE’s post-trade tech panel reviews “pinch points”, considers reforms

Fnality and EPAM building payment systems to support distributed FMIs

NY and French regulators sign fintech agreement

Decentralized digital identity is market-ready after FCA sandbox pilot

ISDA and aosphere Launch E-contracts Service

Seclending prioritized as DLT post-trade project by JPX, JASDEC

Hampleton: 70% of AI deals are for quantitative analysis

ESMA publishes final report on fair and reasonable (FRANDT) clearing terms under EMIR Refit

SGX announces launch of Singapore Single Stock Futures and signs MSCI Singapore licence agreement

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Language (Tech) is Power: Microsoft, UMass Amherst researchers tackle NLP bias

BNY Mellon, Deutsche join global firms to base pricing/matching engines in Singapore for FX/Treasury

TNS recorded zero packet loss during record volumes

Reuters: global firms consider moving treasury operations out of HK

Tradeweb’s repo ADV up up 9.4% YoY to $231.4bn in May

BIS via ISDA: OTC derivatives notional down 12.8% from mid-year 2019 to end 2019

ESMA consults on cloud outsourcing guidelines

Turquoise-Plato creates undisclosed execution channel for lit auction liquidity, revives order type for frequent batch auctions

OCC securities lending CCP volume flat in May 2020 year over year