News and Notes

Hong Kong SFC: Prime services and related equity derivatives activities

Reuters: Prosecutors suspect 70 Deutsche Bank managers in dividend tax probe

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CPMI and IOSCO publish for public comment a paper on CCP auctions

LCH: Best Practices in CCP Risk Management

BoE official reveals early results of financial AI adoption survey

FSB publishes user guide for overnight risk-free rates

FSB publicly consults on resolution-related disclosures and on the operationalisation of bank recovery and resolution

OCC seclending CCP up 0.3% in May 2019 year over year

ECB provides a one-off spread between €STR and EONIA

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Citco integrates S3 Partners’ Blacklight TCA suite

Bank of England working paper: The Cost of Clearing Fragmentation

ARRC Releases Recommended Fallback Language for Bilateral Business Loans and Securitizations

Bank of England blog: CCP porting, are there lessons to be learnt from elsewhere?

Deutsche Börse’s Regulatory Reporting Hub to start SFTR services

FSB publishes peer review of implementation of the Legal Entity Identifier

K&L Gates: New Japanese Securitization Risk Retention Rule and Its Impact on CLO Investors in Japan

US Senators introduce financial transaction tax proposal

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DataLend analyzes global trade war impacts on SecFin industry

Manmohan Singh in the FT: Collateral Velocity is Rebounding

BrokerTec Launches BrokerTec Quote RFQ Trading Solution for European Repo Markets

Clearstream enters Australian market with acquisition of Ausmaq Limited

ISDA CDM Deployed to Help Deliver UK Digital Regulatory Reporting Pilot

ECB working paper on banks’ reaction to negative rates in the euro area

ISDA: Key Trends in the Size and Composition of OTC Derivatives Markets

LCH RepoClear taps UnaVista as SFTR trade repository

Working Group on Euro Risk-Free Rates Launches Consultation on EONIA to €STR Transition

Central Bank of Ireland’s Kincaid: Towards Greater Transparency in Securities Lending

ISDA Publishes Two Consultations on Benchmark Fallbacks

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Global Custodian: SRD II could pave the way for CSD innovation in data and STP

Bloomberg: Fidelity brings securities lending in-house

BoE blog: is new banking regulation affecting derivatives clearing?

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Bank of England blog: Currency Mispricing and Dealer Balance Sheets

Basel Committee reports global progress on Basel III but limited NSFR adoption

ISLA launches new website

BNY Mellon and AcadiaSoft partner for non-cleared margin calculations outsourcing

Standard Chartered Bank and eSecLending Partner to Provide Agency Securities Lending

Bursa Malaysia launches POC for securities lending on blockchain

Fed blog: Selected Deposits and the OBFR

ESRB working paper: Has regulatory capital made banks safer? Skin in the game vs moral hazard

BIS: OTC derivatives notional declines to $544 trillion, market value down to $9.7 trillion

Eurex Repo up 30.2% in April 2019 volumes year over year

Federal Reserve Board invites comment on a proposal to apply netting protections to a broader range of financial institutions

BofE working paper finds (again) that Leverage Ratio damages repo market resilience

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FSB designates DSB as Unique Product Identifier (UPI) Service Provider