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Leverage

The use of borrowed capital (debt) to increase the potential return of an investment.

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Industry
GLEIF approves BOCOM Fintech as validation agent

BOCOM Fintech’s new status represents a significant milestone for LEI adoption in China and the Asia Pacific region, according to GLEIF

Technology
Fleming: Innovation needed in collateral management world

Automation and AI trends in the collateral management space, as well as how technology and cooperation can help to better navigate, were key topics discussed by Itzel Soto Narvaez at the Fleming Collateral Management Forum

Industry
Moomoo Malaysia launches US options

This new feature will allow users to diversify their investment strategies, hedge positions, and gain more control over their portfolios, the firm says

Industry
HKMA introduces new project to accelerate tokenisation adoption

Using experimental tokenised money, the Sandbox will enable experiments for both payment-versus-payment and delivery-versus-payment use cases

Industry
Investec launches new electronic equity trading desk

Dominic Lowres, hired alongside Matthew West, will head the desk providing clients access to a new, global electronic execution channel

Regulation
EBA updates G-SIIs identification data

The publication covers 13 indicators used to measure the systemic importance of institutions

Industry
AIIB issues first DNN through Euroclear’s D-FMI platform

This marks the first digital issuance in US dollars for Euroclear and the first such issuance by an Asia-based issuer on its platform, the firm says

Regulation
ISLA and ICMA publish GMRA Digital Assets Annex

The association looks to bring consistency to the legal terms used by market participants when trading certain digital assets under the GMRA 2011 and 2010