Posts by Finadium Editorial Team

ISDA Margin Survey: Top 20 Firms Collected Over $170 Billion of Initial Margin at Year-End 2019

BIS research shows higher bank capital reduces volatility spillovers

FSB consults on 10 recommendations for global stablecoins

Fed plans to reduce afternoon and some term repo liquidity operations

Industry associations ask for postponement of EU Shareholder Rights Directive II

Caixin: China securities lending at record high

New York “hybrid” utility sells first bitcoin hashpower contract aimed at US institutional investors

The Trade: Mass margin calls spark operational headache for buy-side and brokers

SEC Enhances Standards for Critical Market Infrastructure

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SEC settle fraud charges for $500k in EDGAR hacking case

BlackRock and Microsoft partner for Aladdin in the cloud, sustainability tech

Decrypt: retail bitcoin investors buy the dip as institutional traders flee

DRW treasury to use OpenGamma’s analytics for derivatives margin

Fed to pump another $2.3 trillion into US economy, expands Primary and Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facilities and the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility

IOSCO/CPMI: Jurisdictions move towards full implementation of standards for financial market infrastructures

Japanese regulators plan to exempt central bank holdings from bank leverage ratios

ISLA sustainable finance council calls for short selling ban evidence, policy involvement as pandemic impacts markets

First execution of “meaning aware” NLP on quantum computer

ARRC recommends five-year lookback period on adjusting USD LIBOR to SOFR for cash products

Eurekahedge: AI funds up 3.5%, crypto funds down 20.2% in March

SIX and Nasdaq team up for Europe-wide market data access via microwave tech

ECB announces package of temporary collateral easing measures

Basel Committee says that as of June 2019, large banks were on track for Basel III

LSEG’s tech arm deploys new clearing platform for LCH EquityClear

BIS: A New Indicator of Bank Funding Cost

Cyber survey finds 1/3 of financial services firms don’t have “proper” third-party controls

J.P. Morgan’s eFX trading and pricing engine goes live in Singapore

IHS Markit: securities finance revenue for Q1 2020 down 5.5% year over year

BondIT offers optimization/automation freebie for portfolio managers working from home

Quant researchers advise shift to “nowcasting” among lessons learned in market sell-off

TechCrunch: fintechs argue advanced tech edge for covid-19 bailout processing

Tradeweb reports ADV $1trn in March, repo trading ADV up 32.5% yoy at $235.4bn

BIS researchers consider payment behavioral change under Covid-19, retail CBDC in spotlight

Basel Committee and IOSCO defer next UMR go-live dates to Sept 2021 and Sept 2022

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AnalytixInsight offers free access to CapitalCube financial analytics platform

Liquidnet: auctions ease, increase in continuous lit trading most likely due to a rise in algo trading

Federated’s Cunningham: Fed support has been effective through tremendous stress

Fed post argues in favor of opacity in bank disclosures during a crisis

Opalesque: Impact of the Fed’s programs on credit markets

BIS: Leverage and margin spirals in fixed income markets during the Covid-19 crisis

ZUBR: maker rebates dampen crypto derivatives opportunities

Finch Capital: after crisis mode, fintech ‘disruptive winners’ will take all

Pico joins Japan Exchange Group co-location ecosystem

OCC seclending CCP activity up 2% in March 2020 year over year

NIST releases draft on cloud systems cyber

Hazeltree and HedgeLegal collaborate on comprehensive UMR guide

BIS: Dollar funding costs during the Covid-19 crisis through the lens of the FX swap market

DataLend launches daily securities finance market overview