News and Notes

Euroclear starts collateral mobility project on Canton network

Dallas Fed’s Logan weighs long- vs. short-term duration assets for balance sheet

Canadian government and banks sharing intelligence to tackle money laundering threats

Monument backs Firenze’s Lombard lending to wealth managers with £160mn funding line

AccessFintech integrates data network into S&P Global’s post-trade platform

ESMA publishes stress test scenario guidelines

ChinAI: DeepSeek-R1 stability on 3rd party platforms -18 web-based evaluations

CME and DTCC plan UST and IR futures cross-margining for year-end

Euroclear mobilizes €2trn+ daily on Collateral Highway

ECB changes private sector asset ratings for Eurosystem collateral

FSB consults on regulatory framework for crypto asset activities

UK FCA fines Mako £1.6mn for cum-ex trading failings

BoE’s Mills on T+1 alignment with Europe and how FMIs should tackle challenges

Bloomberg: Thailand curbs short selling amid market slump

US SEC sets up unit to protect retail investors from emerging tech

Evident: 4 banks dominate disclosure of AI use cases

TMX acquires Credit Suisse bond indices from UBS

Eurosystem to connect DLT settlement with TARGET

ESMA publishes first technical standards for CSDR Refit

ISLA Publishes the 22nd Edition of the ‘ISLA Securities Lending Market Report’

PBOC’s certification body becomes first vLEI issuer in China

Bank of Israel survey on digital shekel considers paying interest

US SEC withdraws appeal on Dealer Rule

Baton launches eligibility service for collateral management

LSEG survey shows AI hitting a wall with compliance chiefs

Saudi CSD launches mutual funds platform as securities financing leaders convene in Riyadh

Saudi central bank issues netting and collateral regulation

Euroclear launches US Treasury DVP repo service with tech from BBH and Matrix Applications

Taula Capital taps Opensee for risk analytics with “agentic AI”

AIMA: BoE focus should be market liquidity capacity during stress

FINRA substantially rewrites SLATE specifications but it still looks like overkill

European Commission formally proposes move to T+1 settlement

US, UK and Australia sanction Lockbit ransomware infrastructure

ESMA adds automated securities lending in settlement discipline consultation

NYSE to launch Texas exchange and incorporate Chicago operations

GLMX and Flextrade integrate platforms for buy-side repo

SC Lowy: US market shake-up to fuel APAC private credit boom

ESMA’s risk report warns on geopolitical and macroeconomic drivers of uncertainty

AFME: EC’s proposed timeline for T+1 aligns with industry and key jurisdictions

Bloomberg: Japan FSA warns banks on repackaged JGBs

FIA Tech goes live with real-time fee/commission matching for listed derivatives

BoE’s Bailey talks up NBFI stress tests amid liquidity shift

Federated Hermes’ experts on impact of tariffs: multi-asset, trade finance and EM investment

SIX adds crypto to triparty collateral management

Euronext taps Euroclear as triparty agent to boost repo franchise

SCMP: Citic, HSBC among first users of China’s RepoConnect

BMO first Canadian bank in IBM quantum network

HSBC proposes to boost securities lending for ETF to 50%

China FX trade system taps Bloomberg for offshore RMB bond repo

BoE’s Mills outlines regulation priorities for FMIs