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Leverage

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

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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

Regulation
ISDA: ‘Not a lot of time’ to prepare for US Treasury reforms

CEO Scott O’Malia believes there to be an “enormous laundry list of tasks” to complete when it comes to the SEC’s US Treasury reforms

Industry
Tradeweb completes acquisition of ICD

With this move, Tradeweb adds corporate treasury professionals as a fourth client channel, complementing its existing focus on institutional, wholesale and retail clients

Industry
Global PSSL and Confide Platform collaborate

Global PSSL Secretariat will leverage the capabilities of the Confide Platform to ensure the confidential, efficient, and transparent resolution of grievances and internal conflicts