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Short selling most lucrative investment strategy for hedge funds in June

11 August 2021 France
Reporter: Alex Pugh

Despite hedge fund strategies underperforming their 12-month average, short selling was the best performing strategy in June with 3.41% monthly return according to EDHEC-Risk

Broadridge appoints Annette Nazareth to board of directors

11 August 2021 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Annette Nazareth, former commissioner at US Securities and Exchange Commission, has joined Broadridge’s board of directors

DTCC to act as sole trade reporting service under new Singapore regulations

11 August 2021 Singapore
Reporter: Alex Pugh

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation will provide trade reporting services to in-scope Singapore firms under the final phase of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s derivatives trade reporting requirements

Digital bank EQIBank launches DeFi platform for lending crypto

10 August 2021 Dominica
Reporter: Alex Pugh

“EQIFI's new range of products are an essential milestone on the road to decentralised finance adoption,” says EQIBank CEO and EQIFI chair Jason Blick

Broadridge onboards UBS onto distributed ledger repo platform

09 August 2021 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Broadridge, a US global financial technology company, has announced UBS has joined its distributed ledger repo platform after its launch in June

Digital asset exchange settles with US SEC for $10m

09 August 2021 US
Reporter: Alex Pugh

Trading platform Poloniex neither admitted nor denied the Securities and Exchange Commission’s findings but has nonetheless agreed to a cease-and-desist order and to pay disgorgement

Foreign banks permitted to become direct clearing members of Russia’s NCC

09 August 2021 Russia
Reporter: Bob Currie

International banks may become direct clearing members of Moscow Exchange Group’s clearing entity, with NCC launching tax agent service

Digital asset bank Greengage secures £2.5m funding from IOVLabs

09 August 2021 Gibraltar
Reporter: Alex Pugh

Both of the Gibraltar-based firms want to democratise and open up B2B crypto lending to underserved markets such as SMEs, using the open-source RSK Blockchain and RSK Infrastructure Framework

IPO activity powers LSEG to 4.6% H1 rise in total income

06 August 2021 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

London Stock Exchange group realised significant improvement in revenue from non-cash collateral, which was up 17.5 per cent boosted by strong activity through RepoClear

LCH SA expands clearing model to include Euro repo clearing

05 August 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

LCH SA, LCH Group’s Paris-based clearing house, has expanded its sponsored clearing model to include Euro repo clearing

Financial agreements digitisation could save industry up to $1.2bn, survey finds

05 August 2021 US
Reporter: Alex Pugh

Even with partial automation of data collection and aggregation, firms in the survey were split when it came to whether their internal systems are able to take agreement data from multiple sources

Tradeweb reports July increase in repo trading activity

04 August 2021 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Repo average daily volume was US$345.1 billion, representing a 38.9 per cent rise in July compared to July 2020, according to Tradeweb data

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