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ABN AMRO Clearing introduces fractional investing infrastructure

18 January 2022 Netherlands
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Neobroker BUX has become the firm’s first client to use the new feature, allowing clients to to use their accounts to buy and sell full shares and fractional shares

BlackRock sec lending full-year revenues down for 2021, AuM tops US$10 trillion

18 January 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

The US asset manager delivered the strongest organic growth in its history, according to Larry Fink, but securities lending revenue fell 15% YoY to US$555 million for 2021

LCH RepoClear set new highs in 2021

17 January 2022 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

Combined LCH RepoClear Ltd and SA nominal hits record €237.6 trillion during 2021 across a new highpoint of 10.5 million trades

Morgan Stanley hires Brian Leung

14 January 2022 Hong Kong
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Leung joins Morgan Stanley as sales manager of its Bank Resource Management business after leaving Deutsche Bank last month

Citi establishes clearing and settlement facility for Beijing Stock Exchange

14 January 2022 China
Reporter: Bob Currie

NEEQ-owned Beijing Stock Exchange will specialise in innovation-oriented SME stocks, with many companies currently trading on NEEQ expected to migrate to the new exchange

Fredrik Carstens joins ISLA as public affairs advisor

13 January 2022 Germany
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Carstens brings more than 30 years of financial markets experience to the role, working both in trading and in senior sales positions in the securities lending industry

BIS, SIX and Swiss central bank complete CBDC settlement with commercial banks in test environment

13 January 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Bob Currie

Project Helvetia aims to prepare for a financial future where financial assets are tokenised and financial infrastructures run on distributed ledger technology with linkage to existing core banking systems

DeFinity records first live cash FX trade to permissionless layer-1 blockchain

12 January 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The willingness of counterparties to report transactions on a permissionless blockchain demonstrates that the market is ready to lift the veil around some traditional FX market friction points, DeFinity claims