News and Notes

SimCorp Partners with Cassini Systems to Enhance Its Front Office Offering

Euroclear connects to Pirum RQV service

Bloomberg: Germany Threatens to Abandon Basel Talks If Demands Not Met

Bank of England: Responses to consultation paper on forecast capital data – PS32/16

BIS speech: The bank/capital markets nexus goes global

UBS teams up with Clearstream and Citi for innovative T2S strategic solution

BNY Mellon says that Sovereign Wealth Funds set to benefit in seclending and repo

Elixium and Pirum announce collaboration to streamline post-trade connectivity

FDIC's Hoenig says keep tough bank capital measures in place, don't backtrack

OFR says brokers borrow less repo but more are borrowing backed by illiquid collateral

TheStreet.com: Wells Fargo grows its repo book to increase market share with clients

LCH clears over $1 trillion in inflation swaps notional

WSJ: OBFR not going well as LIBOR replacement

ECB changes collateral eligibility criteria on some asset types

Federal Reserve proposes to publish three Treasury GC Repo Rates

Reuters: China limits OTC business for financing

The Trade: Hedge funds demands up the pressure on derivatives prime brokers

Reuters: German financial watchdog says Basel IV is unacceptable

LCH to launch LCH SwapAgent, a centralised service for the non-cleared derivatives market

OCC Securities Lending Activity Up 33 Percent in October and 38 Percent Year-to-Date

Moody's: China's shadow banking activity expands briskly; credit growth outpaces nominal GDP

Kenya's Capital Markets Authority issues proposed regulations for securities lending

CFTC Issues Orders of Registration to Five Foreign Boards of Trade to Permit Trading by Direct Access from the U.S.

US Office of Financial Research plans for permanent repo data collection

IOSCO reports on implementation of G20/FSB recommendations to strengthen securities markets

Reuters exclusive: EU proposes a phasing in of some bank capital rules – document

PRA publishes feedback to MiFID II consultation paper

SETL OpenCSD deployed live by Cobalt FX

BIS: Eleventh progress report on adoption of the Basel regulatory framework

US Treasury's Singh encourages a move away from LIBOR

CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad on measuring hedge fund leverage

FSB publishes methodology for assessing the implementation of the Key Attributes of Effective Resolution Regimes in the banking sector

ISLA reports €1.9 trillion of securities on-loan in June 2016, a 4% increase from Dec 2015

Fed paper: bond market liquidity seeing no decline

EACH says that Cover 2 is enough backup for CCP resolution and recovery

WFE advocates for principles-based approach to CCP resolution and recovery

Axoni Completes Successful Nine-Firm Blockchain Implementation for Equity Swaps

Finalising Basel III, speech by William Coen, Secretary General of the Basel Committee

Moody's: Primary broker dealers' pull back from US repo market likely to have only minimal credit impact on money market funds

ICMA ERCC report on the trade registration models used by European CCPs for repo transactions

BNYM: Sovereign Institutions See Securities Lending as Opportunity to Boost Returns

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