News and Notes

CloudMargin integrates with SWIFT

DTCC issues blockchain white paper

BNPP Launches €GCPlus Service Offering

ISDA: Compression Reduces Interest Rate Derivatives Market Size by 62%

BIS: liquidity and electronic trading in fixed income markets

Traiana and Trax form business alliance to offer repo matching service

HazelTree partners with AcadiaSoft for collateral management

R3 brings eleven major global financial institutions together on a cloud based distributed ledger

Bank of England: Centralized trading, transparency and interest rate swap market liquidity: evidence from the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act

MNI: China Brings Back 28-Day Reverse Repos to Help Liquidity

Fed paper: The Effect of Monetary Policy on Bank Wholesale Funding

Basel: Minimum capital requirements for market risk

SEC fines Goldman Sachs $15m for stock locate violations

OFR: The U.S. Bilateral Repo Market: Lessons from a New Survey

Basel Committee agrees to slow down raising of capital levels for most banks

TriOptima launches triResolve Margin, an automated end-to-end margin processing solution

SFTR goes live Jan 12 2016

Moody's releases methodology for CCP credit ratings

Options Clearing Corp seclending volumes up 19% in Dec 2015 from Dec 2014

FT letter: Market participants should create high quality liquid asset exchange

Nasdaq Linq Enables First-Ever Private Securities Issuance Documented With Blockchain Technology

IOSCO publishes Sound Practices at Large Intermediaries Relating to the Assessment of Creditworthiness and the Use of External Credit Ratings

Federal Reserve releases A Primer on the GCF Repo® Service

HazelTree and Goldman Sachs Asset Management partner on cash management

4sight and Pirum Increase Co-operation

CFTC Approves Final Rule on Margin Requirements for Uncleared Swaps for Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants

Fed raises rates; sets Reverse Repo Facility to 25 bps

US Office of Financial Research releases 2015 Financial Stability Report

LCH.Clearnet: white paper “CCP Conundrums” focuses on repo

DTCC’s Omgeo and Simcorp partner for repo post-trade matching in Omgeo CTM

BNYM/PwC: The Future of Wholesale Funding Markets

Murex releases SA-CCR solution as part of its MX.3 Risk and Regulatory Suite

10 nations move forward on FTT

ICMA ERCC Ops Group publishes standardised Trade Matching and Affirmation template for repo

Bloomberg/Markit: the growth of evergreen repo

Hillary Clinton Op-Ed in the New York Times: How I’d Rein In Wall Street

Derivatives may have driven Bund Tantrum in Spring 2015

ICMA European Repo Council changes name to European Repo and Collateral Council

Fed blog: Dealer Positioning and Expected Returns

FRB Vice-Chairman Fischer: Financial Stability and Shadow Banks: What We Don’t Know Could Hurt Us

Goldman Sachs files patent application on cryptographic currency for securities settlement

IOSCO chief talks up the benefits of blockchain

Clearstream offers agency lending over Eurex Lending CCP

Options Clearing Corp Nov 2015 seclending transactions grow, ADV shrinks

BofE study: Basel III capital and TLAC levels may be set too high for real-world risk management

DTCC survey: 60% of risk managers concerned about high impact event

CPMI and IOSCO: Assessment and review of application of Responsibilities for authorities

Federal Reserve proposes rule on LCR disclosures

BIS/CPMI publishes report on digital currencies and distributed ledgers

FSB publishes Standards and Processes for Global Securities Financing Data Collection and Aggregation