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Basel changes could trigger 35% decline in sec lending income for Europe’s buy-side

06 September 2022 Europe
Reporter: Bob Currie

New EU capital rules scheduled for 2025 could result in up to a 500% capital cost increase for banks of engaging in securities financing trades with pension and mutual funds, according to research from Credit Benchmark

UMR Phase 6 implemented today

01 September 2022 Europe
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The last element of a gradual rollout, UMR Phase 6 extends compliance requirements to firms with total notional exposure of €8 billion

Proposed Form-PF changes may require retooling of reporting systems, says AIMA

11 August 2022 US
Reporter: SFT

This proposal, advanced jointly by the SEC and the CFTC, is designed to provide better oversight of hedge funds and their advisers, while boosting data quality and consistency

SEC beefs up crypto enforcement unit, charges insider traders

25 July 2022 US
Reporter: SFT

US regulator expands its crypto asset supervisory and enforcement capability, while tightening its focus on errant gatekeepers and filing charges against three persons for alleged insider trading

ION Markets launches new solution for compliance

19 July 2022 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

ION’s Compliance SaaS solution enables real-time oversight of pre-and post-trading, and offers full coverage of asset types, with an automated compliance checking process and investment transparency

ESMA issues third statement on LEI requirements of SFTR

14 July 2022 EU
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The European Securities and Markets Authority recognises a reporting implementation issue with Securities Financing Transactions, finding a significant number of issuers without an LEI

ESMA announces data reporting agencies that it will supervise directly

13 July 2022 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

Following publication of derogation criteria under the European Commission Delegated Act in March, ESMA has identified nine data reporting service providers that it will directly regulate

ESMA consults on cash penalty procedures under CSDR

12 July 2022 EU
Reporter: SFT

The EU securities market regulator has launched a consultation to assess industry reaction to proposed changes to cash penalty procedures under the Central Securities Depositories Regulation

BoE Money Markets Committee voices concern over repo fail rates

11 July 2022 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

Repo fail rates are “still too high” and this reflects poorly on the London market, says BoE Committee, with low liquidity, COVID challenges and upstream failures in an interlinked chain of transactions contributing to the rise

OCC named Tier 1 TC-CCP under EMIR

01 July 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The European Securities and Markets Authority has recognised the Options Clearing Corporation as a Tier 1 third-country central counterparty

Citi, J.P. Morgan and AccessFintech collaboration achieves operational efficiencies

27 June 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

A continuous access to enriched and linked real-time data resulted in a 30 per cent reduction in trade fails, according to AccessFintech

BIS establishes Renminbi Liquidity Arrangement with People’s Bank of China

27 June 2022 APAC
Reporter: Bob Currie

The RMBLA will provide liquidity support through a reserve pooling scheme, whereby participating central banks will contribute a minimum of RMB 15 billion, and will have access to funds from this pool and via a collateralised liquidity window

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