News and Notes

Murex, Baton: Basel III banking reforms expose “emerging chinks” in global finance armor

ICMA estimates sustainable CP market at €300bn

Caceis custodies tokenized French UCITS MMF issued on Ethereum

Turnleaf Analytics: FILS themes center on buy/sell side liquidity and consistency

People moves: Bank of Canada, Charles Schwab, Clear Street, DTCC, Euroclear, PanAgora, US SEC, State Street, Wematch

BusinessKorea: authorities pass beefed up short selling rules amid ban

AMB Crypto: CFTC advances using DLT for tokenized collateral

Clear Street acquires Instinet’s algo trading firm Fox River

Media reports: NY Fed’s RRP sees Q3 cash surge amid funding market volatility

AFME: global operating approaches in capital markets

Euroclear among 27 participants in latest RWA tokenization pilot on Canton

Euronext Securities acquires fintech Acupay

ECB blog: are hedge funds good or bad for market functioning?

ESMA publishes 2025 regulatory priorities

Meritsoft launches “API-first” claims management tool

Caceis integrates fintech Nephelai’s AI into middle office

BMLL raises $21mn led by Optiver for global expansion

Bilyonaryo: Philippines central bank seeks to boost repo markets

ANZ partners with Chainlink on MAS’ tokenization project

Fed weighs pre-positioned collateral at discount window among liquidity reforms

UK releases draft consult for T+1 by end-2027

People moves: Citi, Exegy, PASLA, Pirum, SEB, SIX, State Street, Tadawul, TD Bank, Tradeweb, WISF

Fed SCOOS survey shows stable securities financing conditions

NY Fed’s Perli on repo market pressures and reserve conditions

ECB delays ECMS launch to H1 2025

SNB to expand eligible collateral for bank emergency liquidity

MTS launches multi-D2C fixed income trading platform with repo

BoC to replace repo operations with seclending program on Oct 2

SEB picks Broadridge for international post-trade processing

OpenGamma details 2022 gilt margin vol ahead of BoE stress test

Euroclear white paper on European CSDs and Post Trade: Unlocking scale and competitiveness in Europe’s markets

NY Fed says UST market liquidity improved in 2024

Euroclear improves end-to-end collateral schedule workflows

Business Times: US Basel Endgame plans hit bipartisan FDIC pushback

DTCC and Digital Asset publish results of tokenized collateral project

DTCC’s alternative investment service hits 2.5k clients

DSB data shows industry ready for UK UPI reporting

DLA Piper survey shows financial services want “clear line of sight” on AI, ESG regs

Bloomberg: South Korea to lift short selling ban in March

HSBC pilots quantum-safe technology for “tokenized physical” gold

Bloomberg: Citadel shelves plan to become primary dealer

Reuters: US law firm awarded $102mn from EquiLend antitrust settlement

Argentina bourse to adopt Nasdaq’s clearing platform

Australia prioritizes wholesale CBDC for tokenization settlement

Regtech Global Relay launches AI voice surveillance

LSEG launches cross-asset pricing and referencing data warehouse in cloud

Ownera and Fnality partner on tokenized money

BlueFlame AI targets AIMs with genAI unstructured data feature

NY Fed removes 2 Goldman Sachs funds as RRP counterparties

ESMA advisory group flags securities lending risk from CSDR buy-in exclusion