News and Notes

BNY Mellon: green shoots for Africa’s repo markets

FIA announces cyber risk taskforce after ION attack

Media reports: Indonesia, Taiwan ease short selling bans

X9 seeks participants for research on bank-held crypto asset risks

Quantum Newsletter: quantum key distribution going the distance

TS Imagine launches cross-asset, real-time risk platform for prime brokers

Fintech Droit raises $23mn in round co-led by Pivot and UBS, Goldman Sachs joins

GASLA updates ESG and seclending framework

Taskize and Microsoft Teams integrate to allow users to extend workflow internally

Industry associations respond to UK short selling regulation review

Reuters: PBOC publishes rules regulating major money market funds

Eurex Repo: volumes nearly double to €209.8bn yoy in February

TD completes $1.3bn acquisition of Cowen

DataLend: seclending revenue up 34% yoy at $850mn in February

Tradeweb’s repo ADV up 17% yoy at $411.3bn in February

Bank of England’s Andrew Hauser poses three future research topics on central bank interventions

ISLA’s Andy Dyson on CDM progress

TMPG assesses data gaps in financing market

OCC seclending CCP volume drops 12% yoy to $117.6bn in February

AFME announces establishment of T+1 industry taskforce

EquiLend Selects Digital Asset as Distributed Ledger Technology for Securities Finance Market Initiative

PGIM: Is There a Need for a Chief Liquidity Officer?

Basel III capital ratios for largest global banks fell to pre-pandemic levels in H1 2022, latest Basel III monitoring exercise shows

ANNA announces revised ISO 6166 ISIN for wider dataset reporting

Euronext and Wematch announce launch of IRS platform MTS Swaps

ChinaNews: Outstanding margin trading, securities lending total 73.63 mln yuan on Beijing bourse

White & Case: Repos in Islamic Finance

Acadia developing collateral legal document functionality

UK FCA to set up synthetic data expert group

ICMA completes CDM for open, floating rate, evergreen repos

Kepler Cheuvreux adopts Opensee cloud services for trade and execution

DSB announces UPI Service timeline ahead of January 2024 reporting date

Financial Stability Board targets leverage in 2023 work plan

India central bank releases draft for lending government securities

First digital bond approved for Swiss National Bank General Collateral Basket

Eurex Repo: 2023 volumes off to a strong start despite ECB tightening

US regulators fine OCC $22mn for compliance failures

Industry associations announce open source availability of CDM

Sharegain launches seclending services in US after FINRA approval

DSB seeks committee members ahead of UPI launch, digital asset standards on horizon

BrokerTec US repo ADV flat at $260 billion in January

SEC passes T+1 settlement rule, projects go-live in May 2024

Media round-up: Indian regulator defends short selling amid Adani crisis

ISLA reviews H2 2022 market trends in latest securities lending report

IMC makes strategic investment in Clear Street

ESRB warns on cyber resilience and recommends macroprudential tools

Transcend gets SOC2 certification for security and data integrity

Russell 2000-linked “long and lend” strategies make a comeback

Wematch secfinance platform tops $5.8bn monthly volumes in January

CGTN: Beijing bourse launches margin trading, securities lending