News and Notes

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

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