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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

Clearstream’s GSF business grows in December

12 January 2022 Luxembourg
Reporter: SFT

Global Securities Financing (GSF) business expanded by 11% YoY to €567.0 billion volume outstanding during December, with assets under custody in Clearstream rising to €16.9 trillion

Standard Chartered Hong Kong to acquire RBC Investor Services Hong Kong

12 January 2022 United Kingdom
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong (SCBHK) is to acquire RBC Investor Services Trust Hong Kong Limited, subject to regulatory approval

Acadia and Transcend form Collateral Validation Service

12 January 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The collaboration will help to mitigate UMR challenges for buy-side and broker-dealers as they face a growing volume of margin activity, says Transcend

Michael Maddox joins AccessFintech

11 January 2022 United Kingdom
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

AccessFintech has appointed Michael Maddox as global account manager

ISLA responds to SEC 10c-1, reflecting on SFTR experience

11 January 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

The International Securities Lending Association’s response to the SEC 10c-1 consultation comments on reporting timeframes, issues of scope and extraterritoriality, along with the value of a consensus-derived market data standard