News and Notes

FSB releases public responses to the November 2014 Proposed Standards and Processes for Global Securities Financing Data Collection and Aggregation

CloudMargin announces investment from Illuminate Financial Management LLP

ESMA publishes revised work programme

US Office of Financial Research Strategic Plan 2015-2019

Forbes: New SEC Swaps Rules Could Impact Dealers

Short selling of Chinese A shares now available through Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect

Reuters: ECB monetary policy may fail due to lack of bond sellers

New York Times: New Rules Spur a Humbling Overhaul of Wall St. Banks

PwC: Financial market utilities: Is the system safer?

BME expands its post-trade and depository services

SunGard: Effective Collateral Management Processes

DTCC: G20’s Global Derivatives Transparency Mandate

Eurex CEO Thomas Book: Risk incentives critical in clearing recovery plans

Fed offers four one-week term reverse repo operations

Reuters: Too many e-trading venues for corporate bonds

Bloomberg: European government borrowing costs at record lows

Bloomberg: TLAC bonds get cool reception from buyers

4sight Launches New Triparty Collateral Management Functionality

SmartStream Acquires Algorithmics Collateral Assets

GFMA and IIF comments to the FSB on Total Loss Absorbing Capacity

Federal Reserve announces series of expanded TDF test operations with early withdrawal feature

The Fed’s Tarullo speech on macroprudential policy objectives

BoE’s Andrew Hauser: Realigning private and public interests in wholesale financial markets: the Fair and Effective Markets Review

BNY Mellon, State Street and Natixis join Eurex’s Securities Lending CCP

Federal Reserve experiments with term for Reverse Repo Facility

Calypso Platform to Support BCBS/IOSCO Requirements for Margin on Non-Cleared Derivatives

Hong Kong Monetary Authority consults on “No Creditor Worse Off Than in Liquidation” (NCWOL)

China offers Switzerland $8b QFII quota

Federal Reserve convenes Alternative Reference Rates Committee

Reuters: ESMA expected to delay non-cleared derivatives margin rules

OCC announces US$1 billion committed repo facility

Euribor goes negative

Bank of England: Assessing capital adequacy under Pillar 2

Reuters: China seeks to crack down on Shadow Banking

New York Fed releases expanded reverse repo counterparties list

Bank of England publishes “Supervisory tools: Recovery and resolution plans”

EurexOTC breaks EUR 100 billion cleared notional

The Clearing House Calls on FSOC to Address CCP Systemic Risk

China Shadow Banking Shows Strong Growth

SLT: OneChicago record year

CloudMargin links to AcadiaSoft

MTS and B2SCAN launch initiative to enhance liquidity in credit market

FINRA to focus on fully paid securities lending in 2015

Options Clearing Corp gets SEC No Action letter for new repo program

eSecLending publishes best practices on seclending for institutional investors

ISDA Insight Survey: End Users Uncertain about New Margin Requirements

France now wants FTT on all financial products including derivatives