News and Notes

EMCF and EuroCCP to merge

ESMA consults on non-EU counterparties OTC derivatives

European organisations aim to boost triparty repo settlement interoperability by 2015

ESMA begins detailing central clearing of OTC derivatives

US proposes 5% leverage ratio for large banks

OneChicago trading volumes up 80% over June 2012

Bloomberg: EU Accuses 13 Banks of Hampering CDS Competition

OCC seclending volume down 5% from June 2012

Olivetree selects SunGard ASTEC for seclending data

Bloomberg: SIX to run Swiss repo market

SLT: BNY Mellon receives key collateral patent

Eurex Clearing Prisma upgrades portfolio margining

BNP Paribas rolls out Collateral Access

IOSCO Publishes Principles for the Regulation of Exchange Traded Funds

Basel Committee publishes Basel III assessment for Switzerland

ICAP invests in Enso Financial

Eurex Clearing's Securities Lending CCP expands coverage

J.P. Morgan launches Collateral Central tracking service

JPMorgan and LSE partner on new European CSD

LSE's MTS to allow buy-side trading of interest rate swaps

EACH urges regulators to exempt CCPs from the bail-in provisions of the banking recovery & resolution framework proposal

Citi OpenCollateral gets a win

OneChicago trades 1 million SSF contracts in May 2013

ESMA proposes adjustments to EU short selling rules

Clearstream offers new repo agreement to the market

BNYM includes MBS in bilateral margining capabilities

OCC seclending volume up 46% over May 2012

4sight adds Collateral Substitution Automation to its Collateral Optimisation Solution

Aviva Investors France gets BNP Paribas for collateral administration

OCC to restrict exercises to net long positions

Calypso Technology Opens Office in Beijing

Eris Exchange Announces A Single Day Trading Volume Record

Pershing and BNY Mellon Combine Bank and Brokerage Custody into a Single Service Offering

Lombard Risk announces record results for year ending 31 March 2013

Euroclear partners with DTCC; Clearstream to follow

BNYM report says Big Data next step in financial analytics

FT: Dual-track Libor replacement lined up

BNY Mellon Launches Intraday Liquidity Analytics

Quadriserv, Inc. Announces Expansion of Relationship With SunGard In Support Of Securities Lending Initiatives

SIX Securities Services: collateral management at risk of becoming a commodity

BNP Paribas and Clearstream's collateral management collaboration goes live

State Street upgrades financial reporting and collateral services

ICMA report on the systemic importance of collateral, repo and the FTT

REGIS-TR sign KAS BANK as first participant reporting on behalf of market participants

OCC Securities Lending volumes rise 53% year over year

ISDA Publishes 2013 Operations Benchmarking Survey

Euroclear Bank and Standard Chartered broaden collateral pool

SunGard launches customizable securities lending data ticker in Lending Pit

Cooperation between Clearstream and Standard Chartered expands Global Liquidity Hub agent bank solution into Asia

OMGEO expands collateral optimization capabilities in ProtoColl