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ESMA defines its five-year data strategy

16 June 2023 EU
Reporter: SFT

The EU securities market regulator focuses on fostering effective markets and financial stability, strengthening EU financial supervision and improving protection for retail investors in its 2023-28 data programme

Margin Reform and Pierpoint Financial form consultancy partnership

15 June 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

According to the firms, the collaboration enables them to reinforce the expertise offered to clients in the field of margin and collateral, bridging derivatives, repo and securities lending

FICC sponsored clearing passes US$750 billion in daily activity, says DTCC

14 June 2023 US
Reporter: SFT

The New York-based post-trade infrastructure provider flags up the release of its sponsored general collateral service in September 2021 as an important driver in fuelling this expansion, with Sponsored GC now passing US$100 billion in daily notional

Dinosaur Merchant Bank expands prime brokerage services

14 June 2023 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The London-based bank says its enhanced prime brokerage services are designed to meet the evolving needs of today’s dynamic financial landscape

Consort1 collaborates with banks and infrastructure to extend access to sec lending and repo markets

14 June 2023 UK
Reporter: SFT

The Jersey-based financial technology company will work with Clearstream, NatWest, Standard Chartered Bank, Arlingclose, BankClarity and Alpha Group to support the trading of secured deposits and to extend access to wholesale SFT markets

R3 releases beta version of new gen Corda platform

14 June 2023 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

Through consultation with the Corda community, this evolution is driven by scalability, enhanced privacy and security, user friendly dev tools and the new generation platform’s ability to interconnect and interoperate with other DLT platforms