News and Notes

Norges Bank Investment Management publishes "The Role of Securities Lending in Well Functioning Markets: Asset Manager Perspective"

Elixium, the new all-to-all electronic collateral and secured deposit marketplace, goes live

WSJ: The ETF With the 0.00% Fee

Eris Exchange: Hedge Accounting Case Study Overview

OpenGamma raises $13.3m from ICAP and Accel

EU prepares to release rules on CCP recovery including Skin In the Game

IMF releases latest Global Financial Stability Report

U.S., European Officials to Hold Planned Coordination Exercise on Cross-Border Resolution Planning

OCC Securities Lending Activity Up 29 Percent in September and 39 Percent Year-to-Date

BBA blog: With Basel III for main course, will there still be enough room for “Basel IV” for dessert?

WSJ: Cash Floods Into Fed Repo Facility (US$412.5 billion)

ESMA consults on future reporting rules for securities finance transactions

Latest ICMA survey sets baseline size of the European repo market at EUR 5,379 billion

ECB and People’s Bank of China extend bilateral currency swap arrangement

Australian Financial Review: SMSFs are Australia's version of shadow banks: Credit Suisse

China Construction Bank, Zurich Branch, appoints SIX Securities Services as its infrastructure provider for Swiss Renminbi Clearing Hub

Global Investor: Taxing times for German securities lending market

CFTC Expands Interest Rate Swap Clearing Requirement

SGSS mandated by Hungary’s central securities depository for T2S payment bank services

BNPP testing blockchain "Collat’Shaker" for collateral management

Murex Announces Bankdata Implementation of MX.3 as a Utility for 11 Danish Banks

Strate and NSD sign LOI to collaborate on Distributed Ledger Technology

Federal Reserve Board invites public comment on proposed rule to modify its capital plan and stress testing rules for 2017 cycle

Fed's Tarullo on Next Steps in the Evolution of Stress Testing

LCH expands Spider portfolio margining

SIX Securities Services and Clearstream seek collaboration as European financial landscape becomes more challenging

ECB speech at SIBOS: The next steps in the evolution of the Eurosystem’s market infrastructure

SIFMA AMG Comments on the FSB Consultation on Asset Management Activities

Deutsche Bank: Optimising liquidity management in securities settlement

OFR Monitor Shows Accelerating Shift to Government Money Market Funds

BrokerTec And MTS Add Spain Index To RepoFunds Rate

Bank of England: Stress testing of banks: an introduction

Bank of England working paper on Sovereign GDP-linked bonds

Eris And Cassini Systems Partner To Offer Margin Savings Analysis

MP: UK will fare best by embracing MiFID II post-Brexit

As New Margin Regulations Go into Effect, AcadiaSoft Hub Sees High Volumes

SF Fed: The Growing Importance of China’s Money Market

Lombard Risk Announces Global Partnership with TMX Market Insights | Razor Risk

New ISDA Whitepaper Urges Greater Standardization and Efficiency in Derivatives Market Infrastructures

itBit rebrands as Paxos, launches Bankchain

SocGen: European Commission’s View on the Role of Financial Market Infrastructures

Euroclear ESES migrates to T2S

Lombard Risk launches AgileCOLLATERAL, a cloud-based collateral management system

BNYM: Wave 3 will define T2S success

Governors and Heads of Supervision announce progress in finalising post-crisis regulatory reforms

Federal Reserve Board approves final policy statement detailing framework for setting Countercyclical Capital Buffer

G20 looks to finalize Basel III, no new capital increases for banks

AFME releases Principles on Asset Segregation Due Diligence and Collateral Management

ICE Benchmark Administration launched crowdsourcing facility for ISDA SIMM(TM)

Lipper: Securities lending remains a hot topic in the European ETF industry