News and Notes

AcadiaSoft unveils central margining hub for derivatives

Clearstream launches new Liquidity Alliance front end

BNY Mellon: Collateral Management: Navigating the Regulatory Maze

BofE’s Andrew Bailey on the bank capital debate

Bank of England announces additional Indexed Long-Term Repo operations

Federal Reserve proposes credit exposure rules for large banks to single counterparties

Basel Committee publishes Basel III Monitoring Report March 2016

SIX launches its new CO:RE trading platform – an advanced system for repo transactions

Fed blog post: Would Monetary Tightening Increase Bank Wholesale Funding?

ESMA issues report on risks and costs of CCP interoperability

IOSCO Publishes the Securities Markets Risk Outlook 2016

Markit’s Portfolio Valuation Services Now Available Within CloudMargin Platform

Options Clearing Corp seclending CCP up 41% in year to date activity

Pirum offers new Loan Release product

IFR: blockchain could help buy-side direct clearing efforts

Canada issues final amendments to early warning rules

4sight opens office in New York

FSB Chair sets out to the G20 the FSB work programme for 2016

Murex announces enterprise FRTB solution

DTCC publishes white paper on impact of collateral settlement fails

IOSCO recognizes blockchain, releases minutes of February 2016 meeting

Federal Reserve: Did Third Avenue’s Liquidation Reduce Corporate Bond Market Liquidity?

InteDelta and Murex survey banks on the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book

LCH.Clearnet expands European cash equities clearing service

Fed Term Deposit Facility offering of Feb 18 2016 at US$63 billion

Survey: 61% of financial professionals ready for a post-trades processing utility

ESMA consults on benchmark regulation

SEC approves Options Clearing Corp capital plan

SS&C Enhances Capabilities to Support Straight-Through-Margining Requirements

Federal Reserve: Continuing the Conversation on Liquidity

Zoltan Pozsar: The Fed's Foreign RRP Facility

SLT: Broadridge acquires Anetics

Euroclear and Oliver Wyman publish blockchain white paper

US Office of Financial Research and FSOC to host repo panel on Feb 5 2016

Options Clearing Corp seclending CCP up 29% in January year over year

WSJ: The New Threat to Bank-to-Bank Lending

FT: Clearing house push created unforeseen systemic risks

Markit: 2015 a big year for Asian equities in securities lending

OFR releases 2015 annual report

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