News and Notes

ESMA issues positive opinion on BaFin short selling ban on Wirecard AG

ISLA: ESMA Publishes Key Priorities for 2019

Cassini Systems and Margin Reform launch service for uncleared margin rule regulations

ECB paper profiles the Euro IRS market

ECB Working Paper: Money markets, collateral and monetary policy

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ISLA publishes GMSLA Pledge documentation Q&A

PPM America goes live on CloudMargin platform for collateral automation

CanDeal partners with six Canadian Banks to Create Market Data Hub

CNBC: Fidelity and Schwab cut trading commissions on more ETF

US Office of Financial Research to collect CCP repo transactions

BIS Working Paper: Central counterparty capitalization and misaligned incentives

FSB work plan for 2019 focuses on wrapping up loose ends

Indonesia prepares new Securities Finance Agency to provide financing

Eurex clears first swap transaction for U.S. end clients

Fed blog on the dominance of the US Dollar as a reserve currency

Fed’s Randal Quarles: next steps for the Financial Stability Board

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Deutsche Bank will use CloudMargin’s public cloud for collateral infrastructure

MTS sees record trading on its repo markets in January 2019

Tradeweb reports new post-crisis high in repo trading of over $170 billion daily for January 2019

NY Fed proposes change to the Overnight Bank Funding Rate

BCBS: An examination of initial experience with the global systemically important bank framework

ECB finds €10.9 trillion in Euro HQLA but potential for pockets of HQLA scarcity

FSB publishes Global Monitoring Report on Non-Bank Financial Intermediation 2018

EquiLend Partners With Stonewain to Offer Fully Integrated Securities Finance Platform

ECB working paper: From cash- to securities-driven euro area repo markets: the role of financial stress and safe asset scarcity

OCC seclending CCP down 1.5% in Jan 2019 year over year

BofE Working Paper: To ask or not to ask: collateral vs screening in lending relationships

NY Fed: notes from the Fourth Annual Conference on the Evolving Structure of the U.S. Treasury Market

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ARRC addresses volatility of SOFR

RepoClear hits €197 trn in 2018 volume, up 13% from 2017

ECB’s Yves Mersch: The possible triangle – frictionless movement of payments, securities and collateral across Europe

ECB publishes results of Dec 2018 SESFOD

LSEG to acquire 4.92% of Euroclear Holding SA/NV

ESMA updates CSDR, benchmark Q&As

Shanghai Stock Exchange Releases Notice On Collateralized Repo Of Shares

Pirum extends North American offering with US Domestic Tri-party connectivity

RMA and EquiLend publish Latin America Securities Finance User Guide 2019

FCA encourages prompt action on LIBOR fallback plans

HQLA^X reports six banks onboarding to use blockchain collateral platform

ICE proposes USD unsecured bank debt indices

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BIS: Risk endogeneity at the lender/investor-of-last-resort

ISDA Publishes Best Practice Recommendations for CCPs

BofE: Look abroad! Global financial conditions and risks to domestic growth

BIS: Establishing viable capital markets

St. Louis Fed: Should the central bank issue e-money?

WSJ: Dollar maintains role as dominant reserve currency