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EquiLend reports a record year for securities lending

01 February 2022 US
Reporter: SFT

US-based financial technology specialist reports a record year for its securities finance trading activities, generating its highest annual trading volumes in a number of categories and double-digit growth in all regions apart from APAC

Pirum upgrades service to support CSDR claims

01 February 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Pirum’s Claims Manager service will support the centralised issuing, tracking and payment of CSDR claims on a real-time basis for all counterparties

Global PSSL welcomes Dutch regulator as observer

31 January 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets will have regular access to some Global PSSL meetings and roundtables

Oliver Madden joins BCB Group

31 January 2022 United Kingdom
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

BCB Group has appointed Oliver Madden as senior client relationship manager

LuxSE admits digital securities tokens onto official list

31 January 2022 Luxembourg
Reporter: Bob Currie

The series of tokens to be admitted on to Luxembourg Stock Exchange’s Securities Official List are digital covered bonds and structured products issued by Societe Generale - FORGE, the French financial services group’s digital division

GraniteShares sees trading surge in Short ETPs

31 January 2022 Global
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The ETP provider offers a number of Short ETPs, which are designed to rise in value when the underlying stock or index falls, are seeing a rise in interest as investors seek to hedge portfolios against falling security prices

Eurex Clearing offers cross-margining of swaps and futures to buy side

27 January 2022 Germany
Reporter: SFT

The Deutsche Börse-owned clearing entity confirms that Societe Generale and BNP Paribas are now offering cross-product margining services to clients and that the first large, multi-strategy hedge fund is now using of this facility

ESMA launches consultation on anti-procyclicality margin measures for CCPs

27 January 2022 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

EU securities market regulator says that the COVID-19 crisis, which provided a live test of CCPs’ operational resilience, has prompted a review of its anti-procyclicality tools and its supervisory framework for central clearing