News and Notes

European Commission releases Banking Reform package

trueEX Launches First Platform For Trading And Novation Of Non-Cleared Derivatives

AcadiaSoft Purchases ProtoColl Collateral Management Service

White paper: Securities Lending as Wholesale Funding: Evidence from the U.S. Life Insurance Industry

Swiss Finance Institute: Collateral, central bank repos, and systemic arbitrage

EquiLend launches SFTR solution

Basel Committee: Global systemically important banks: Assessment methodology and the additional loss absorbency requirement

TheStreet.com: Fed, After Pushing to Reform Repo Market, Is Now Its Biggest Player

FSB publishes 2016 G-SII list

FSB publishes 2016 G-SIB list

Bank of England's David Bailey on CCP fire-drills

GFT supports Lombard Risk in execution of SaaS collateral strategy

Financial Stability Board agrees 2017 workplan

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