News and Notes

ISDA Launches UTIPrefix.org to Help Drive Global Data Standards

InteDelta: Survey on measurement and management of settlement risk

CFTC’s Massad on CCPs and margin requirements

SLT: OneChicago up 2% year over year for April 2015

ESMA: main risks to EU financial market stability have intensified

Options Clearing Corp seclending volume up 16% year over year

BIS releases OTC derivatives statistics at end-December 2014

Shanghai Stock Exchange on promoting securities lending

ESMA publishes updated EMIR Q&A – focus on trade repository reporting requirements

EquiLend’s Next Generation Trading Platform Goes Live

Societe Generale launches Tempo for outsourced collateral management

DTCC Announces Plans to Link Omgeo ProtoColl to GlobalCollateral Limited’s Margin Transit Utility

ISLA on Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR)

ISDA Study Shows Continued Fragmentation of Global Liquidity Pools

FSB releases Chair’s Letter to G20 on financial reforms

Omgeo upgrades Alert for global custodians and prime brokers

SunGard: Collateral Optimization: The Next Generation of Collateral Management?

ICMA issues Quarterly Report for the Second Quarter of 2015

BATS Chi-X Europe and ICAP announce EFP clearing service

Bloomberg: Fed focuses on CCP risk

FSB launches second peer review on resolution regimes and invites feedback from stakeholders

BIS: The international monetary and financial system: Its Achilles heel and what to do about it

SunGard: BCBS239 – Principles for Risk Management – Not for Finance to Fix

The Role of Institutional Investors in Voting: Evidence from the Securities Lending Market

ICMA publishes the 2015 ICMA GMRA Legal Opinions

Reuters: China punishes six brokerages for margin trading violations

WSJ: Pressure in repo market spreads

Euromoney: Stock Connect: China shorting plan ‘needs more lenders’

ESMA launches centralised data projects for MiFIR and EMIR

OCC Stock Loan activity rises 17% in March 2015 year over year

EquiLend and BondLend Launch Trade Match Service

ISDA Outlines Path Forward for Centralized Execution of Swaps

FT video: Universal Banks should think about specializing

Euroclear tops EUR1 trillion on the collateral highway

ECB and Bank of England announce measures to enhance financial stability in relation to centrally cleared markets in the EU

The Fed’s Tarullo on tiered regulation

ESMA’s Maijoor on CSDR: buy-in rules still a problem

ISDA welcomes delay for non-cleared derivatives margin rules

Clearstream and ICE Clear Europe launch collaboration on triparty margin collateral management service

Old Mutual Global Investors selects CloudMargin for OTC Derivatives Collateral Management

Federal Reserve Board announces proposal requiring banking organizations to include existing Legal Entity Identifiers on certain regulatory reporting forms

S3 Partners to provide weekly seclending benchmark data for Imagine Software clients

Government debt no longer risk free? ESRB publishes new report

CalPERS revealed as OCC’s liquidity facility source with eSecLending

OpenGamma releasing open source Standard Initial Margin Model calculation engine