News and Notes

People moves: Digital Asset, HKEX, M&G, Northern Trust, PIMFA, Xceptor

ESMA researchers categorize smart contracts in DeFi

JD Supra: Luxembourg proposes Blockchain bill changes for DLT issuance

Global PSSL taps Confide platform for whistleblowing in secfinance

EU’s AML reforms to boost LEI adoption

Taskize launches tool to combat email overload in post-trade

Slovenia issues digital bond under CeBM settlement program

UBS and CIBC execute intraday FX swap using Finteum, repo on agenda in 2024

QED-C: quantum technology for securing financial messaging

Cantor Fitzgerald launches $2bn bitcoin financing business

Ownera announces “tokenization router” for custodians and buy-side to direct access Canton’s DLT

US charges short seller with $20mn “bait-and-switch” fraud

People moves: Broadridge, Citi, HSBC, Julius Baer, Marex, SIFMA, State Street

Reuters exclusive: Barclays reaps hedge fund riches in battle of the prime brokers

Australia reconsiders central clearing of government bonds and repos

Evident: Q2 bank earnings calls show AI costs rising fast

Bancolombia taps Chainlink to prove stablecoin reserves

CME to launch AIR TRFs for S&P500 tied to SOFR

ICMA/Bloomberg survey: Korea bond interest could spike on market reforms

BoE details NBFI repo facility, application process in Q4 2024

Tech investor n² Group acquires STAC

ECB: repo markets will have to prove efficient liquidity redistribution

Baton Systems adds JSCC to CCP network

PASLA releases 2024 securities lending guide for APAC

S&P Global’s O’Neill on Ethereum as a settlement layer

FSB to propose NBFI reforms by end-2024

ISDA documentation survey shows no improvement in negotiation times since 2006

Marketforces Africa: Stanbic expands securities lending with fixed income

Bank of England lays out plans for a repo-driven future

ESAs published second batch of policy products under DORA

Regtech Global Relay integrates with OpenAI’s ChatGPT for compliant AI comms

S&P Global: short sellers unconvinced of US small cap rotation

US SEC launches interagency council for enforcement coordination

S3: systems software sector short side recap

BoE research weighs short selling policy on collateral demand/repo interplay

NY Fed adds Capital One as SRF counterparty

Cboe Clear Europe, ABN Amro tested CBDCs for collateral

Malaysia’s AmInvestment Bank deploys Broadridge’s secfinance platform

Industry reactions to BoE’s scrutiny of collateral and risk

People moves: Apex, B. Riley, HSBC, ING, L&G, PASLA

BusinessKorea: KRX to establish a short selling inspection system by Q2 2025

US Treasury and FSSCC publish guide for cloud adoption

NY Fed proposes SOFR changes for DvP repo

Bloomberg: State Street weighs stablecoin for settlement

Bloomberg: Citadel plans white-label trading service

BoE’s Benjamin on calibrating collateral for systemic risk

ISDA: banks reduce use of IMA for market risk

FSB takes stock of nature-related financial risk initiatives

ANNA and DTIF tap KYAX regtech for digital asset reporting compliance

Arcesium launches “operational alpha” platform for complex workflows