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Cboe Clear Europe clears first securities financing transactions

31 March 2025 Europe
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking acted as a principal lender against J.P. Morgan as a borrower in the first trades cleared through the new service

EquiLend’s NGT executed trades down 4% MoM

28 March 2025 Global
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Mike Norwood, head of Trading Solutions at EquiLend, reveals the volatile picture seen in the Next Generation Trading data from February

ISSA welcomes CMA as new member

28 March 2025 Sweden
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Headquartered in Stockholm, CMA provides financial market system solutions across Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East

Shenkman Capital picks TRAction

27 March 2025 US
Reporter: Clelia Frondaroli

TRAction's trade reporting solution is said to simplify Shenkman Capital's trade reporting processes, enabling the firm to channel resources into other business functions

LCH ForexClear adds 24 Exchange as approved trade source

26 March 2025 UK
Reporter: Daniel Tison

By completing its first LCH-cleared production trade, 24X has become the second electronic FX trading platform provider to offer its non-US users a direct workflow to LCH

DTCC launches new capabilities to service

25 March 2025 US
Reporter: Clelia Frondaroli

These changes were made ahead of the SEC's deadline for mandatory clearing of covered US Treasury cash activity and repo activity, set for 31 March 2025

CMU OmniClear expands membership eligibility

25 March 2025 Hong Kong
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Eligible institutions outside of Hong Kong can now join as CMU members and participate in the local bond market

BNY Global Collateral Platform goes live in the Philippines

25 March 2025 Philippines
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Both local and international market participants can finance their Philippine inventory under standard pledge or title transfer arrangements

iBTC to enable Bitcoin-based margin flows on Canton Network

24 March 2025 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The collaboration brings Bitcoin-based assets on-chain, allowing institutional counterparties to use them for initial margin and variation margin solutions

Tech prevails as most shorted sector for third month

21 March 2025 US
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Apple, IBM, and Super Micro are among the top 10 most crowded large cap securities, according to Hazeltree’s February 2024 report

Clearstream GSF volume outstanding down YoY for February

21 March 2025 Luxembourg
Reporter: Daniel Tison

The business saw a decline in volume outstanding both year-on-year and year-to-date

DTCC joins ERC3643 Association

20 March 2025 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The ERC3643 token standard is an open-source suite of smart contracts that enable the issuance, management, and transfer of permissioned tokens