News and Notes

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

JPM: sovereign bond shortages expected to grow

OCC seclending volume up 25% in Dec 2014 year over year

IOSCO and CPMI: Principles for financial market infrastructures

FDIC Issues Guidance for the Resolution Plans of Large Banks

Pirum RQV automation hits US$130 billion milestone

US Agencies Announce Rules to Reflect ISDA Protocol in Regulatory Capital and Liquidity Coverage Ratio Rules

Basel Committee: Criteria for identifying simple, transparent and comparable securitisations

Basel Committee: Net Stable Funding Ratio disclosure standards – consultative document

Fed Reverse Repo goes from 10bps to 5 bps

Broadridge Enhances Collateral Management Offering Through Partnership with AcadiaSoft

Federal Reserve Board proposes rule to further strengthen the capital positions of the largest, most systemically important U.S. bank holding companies

Reuters: Asia unresolved on Too Big to Fail banks

Euroclear provides UniCredit access to Eurosystem liquidity

SWIFT survey finds only 39% of banks confirm payments in real-time

Intercontinental Exchange and Eris Exchange Announce Global Swap Futures Licensing Agreement

Clearstream and BNP Paribas Securities Services team up for TARGET2-Securities

OCC securities lending average daily volume continues gains while transactions decline

ESMA clarifies the role of depositaries under UCITS V

Financial News: LSE's CSD expects regulatory approval by Christmas

Financial News: LSE’s CSD expects regulatory approval by Christmas

Bank of England primer on bank funding costs

Fed Reverse Repo Facility moves to 10 bps

ISDA Launches Principles on CCP Recovery

IFR: Funding ratio rule sparks repo clearing call

CloudMargin and Fund Recs Partner to Offer Integrated Cloud Based Collateral Management and Reconciliations

Genpact and Lombard Risk Launch New Collateral Management Solution for Capital Markets

ICAP Information Services launches ICAP Equity Derivatives premium pricing service

BNY Mellon Establishes Innovation Center in Silicon Valley

Reuters: ECB trains its sights on banks' in-house risk models

IOSCO Consults on Post-Trade Transparency in the Credit Default Swaps Market