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Regulation

South Korea ready to resume short selling

24 March 2025 South Korea
Reporter: Daniel Tison

The Financial Services Commission of South Korea has confirmed that it will fully reinstate stock short selling from 31 March

People moves

SIX promotes Santos to Head of REGIS-TR

24 March 2025 Luxembourg
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Effective on 1 April, María Santos will replace Thomas Steimann who has decided to retire

Industry

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

People moves

Pirum welcomes Corral as Head of Collateral Services

24 March 2025 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Industry

Tech prevails as most shorted sector for third month

21 March 2025 US
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Industry

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

Industry

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

Industry

HKEX confirms date for new collateral options

20 March 2025 Hong Kong
Reporter: Daniel Tison

OTC Clear will accept Chinese government bonds and policy bank bonds as collateral from 21 March

Repo

CME Group to launch BrokerTec US Treasury CLOB in Chicago

20 March 2025 US
Reporter: Daniel Tison

The new central limit order book will be co-located next to CME Group’s US Treasury futures and options markets to support trading between cash and derivatives markets

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