News and Notes

BIS’ latest blockchain PoC is a tokenized promissory note platform

China’s QCC joins GLEIF for mapping data standards

Bank of Uganda picks Sweden’s CMA for RTGS overhaul

FT: Is Basel III sustainable in a new geopolitical era?

OFR blog post: How the Treasury Clearing Rule for Repo Might Affect SOFR

European legislators consult on EU capital markets integration

CFTC consults on 24/7 trading in derivatives markets

ECB fines SEB Baltics €1.2mn for internal models breach

UK’s PRA modifies rulebook for third country covered bonds as HQLA

Swiss innovation authority outlines 7 steps for quantum safety

Clearstream adds all asset classes to Collateral Mapper view

UK FCA opening new offices for US and APAC presence

Xceptor’s data platform to integrate AI agents for process breaks

IIAC and CASLA urge regulators to reconsider Canada alignment with US’ RegSHO

ESMA should consider more granular data for settlement fails, says stakeholder group

ESMA rules on liquidity management tool functioning signal NBFI approach

FSB finalizes cyber and operational incident reporting format

SmartStream launches reference data registry service

CFTC: UST ETFs are eligible margin collateral for uncleared swaps

The Banker: BoE warns banks over SRTs

ISLA publishes 2025 netting opinions for GMSLA

Goldman Sachs signs on with Trading Apps’ TA.Link

OpenGamma: initial margin surges 27% for US equity futures in April

SEB goes live with TA.Link for secfinance messaging

Standard Chartered and OKX pilot tokenized MMF as collateral

Amundi and Murex team up for multi-asset buy-side tech

eToro to launch fully paid lending in UK and Europe with BNY and EquiLend

BNP Paribas’ Geggus sees further divergence in securities lending revenues

ICMA H2 report reviews repo and collateral market activity

BNY pilots intraday triparty repo trades with Swiss Re and UBS

ISDA CEO warns US legislators on repo market functioning in UST clearing testimony

Fed’s Barr: bank-fintech dynamics an “accelerant” for AI adoption

Citadel, Jane Street tap Bloomberg’s new ETF tool for strategy optimization

OCC reports cybersecurity breach of email system

ESMA aims to simplify ESG disclosures

Pirum’s SFT central clearing solution goes live in Europe

ICMA: first drop in European repo value since June 2020 at €10.8trn/end-2024

Broadridge and Fnality team up for intraday repo

Tariff market volatility: industry commentary round-up

UK FCA and finance ministry consult on alternative fund manager rules

ESMA consults on clearing thresholds under EMIR 3

Hong Kong’s Certizen becomes vLEI issuer

Tradeweb transacts first electronic portfolio trade for European GBs between L&G and Citi

Broadridge launches global digital assets solutions

DSB calls for global participation on product advisory committee

Zawya: Egypt regulator approves banks to trade government securities, financial instruments on secondary market

Euroclear joins HKMA tokenization project

Australia pension funds hit by cyber attack

Acadia signs on first China client CITIC for UMR compliance

IISS: rules-based global trading system mostly irrelevant