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EU accepts US CCP regulatory equivalency

27 January 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Allison Herren Lee, acting chair of the SEC, says: â€œThe ECâ€™s decision is an important first step on the road to providing greater regulatory certainty for CCPs and their members on both sides of the Atlantic"

LIBOR transition: 85% of uncleared UK derivatives market ready

27 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The FCAâ€™s Edwin Schooling Latter says the success of this protocol means â€œa major reduction in risk faced by the 12,000 plus firms who have already signed, and for the system as a wholeâ€‌

BCBS proposes changes to SFT haircuts

27 January 2021 Switzerland
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Basel committee has proposed technical amendments to the calculation of minimum haircut floors for securities financing transactions to avoid common misunderstandings

Sharegain makes two new senior hires

27 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Chris Dimmick joins as head of relationship management from AcadiaSoft, while James Cosh becomes a senior operations manager from Pirum Systems

Citi launches new futures algorithm platform

26 January 2021 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Citiâ€™s new flagship algorithm, Arrival, comes as part of a suite of intelligent execution algorithms for global listed derivatives and engineered for the futures markets across all major exchanges in the North America, Europe and Asia Pacific

Credit Suisse expands ESG specialist team with new hires from Robeco and Nordea

26 January 2021 Switzerland
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Credit Suisse has made five new hires to join the bankâ€™s sustainability, strategy, advisory and finance function

Canadian pension plans ended 2020 on a high, Northern Trust data shows

26 January 2021 Canada
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Northern Trust Canada Universe shows Canadian pension plans shrugged off a poor start to 2020, closing with 10 per cent gains for the year

Cecabank selects Broadridge for proxy voting services

26 January 2021 US
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Broadridgeâ€™s solution is already live and is providing Cecabankâ€™s domestic and cross-border institutional clients with a fully automated global proxy voting service

Bank of Canada expands securities repo operations

25 January 2021 Canada
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Bank of Canada is changing the terms of its securities repo operations to to increase the availability of its holdings of Government of Canada securities

Capco addresses main challenges for EMIR Refit

25 January 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

â€œAlready concerns have been raised around how these can be adopted and whether they should be the solution for EMIR standardisation,â€‌ explains Capcoâ€™s Stephen McPherson

GPFA gains 11th member, outlines 2021 vision

25 January 2021 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

With the combined lendable assets of its members now north of $6 trillion, the buy-side association aims to use its clout to affect positive change for the more than 5 million underlying pensioners and public sector workers it represents globally

MM Warburg settles cum-ex tax bill; seeks to recoup from Deutsche Bank and others

25 January 2021 Germany
Reporter: Drew Nicol

As of December, the German private bank has paid â‚¬155 million to tax authorities but is putting its former service providers on notice that it does not plan to eat the loses alone

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