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GameStop was January’s biggest earner, global revenue starts strong

04 February 2021 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

According to IHS Markit, January was most revenue generating month for US equity finance on record, with $41 million of the $453 million total coming from GameStop’s short squeeze

MarketAxess reveals increase in the monthly trading volume for January 2020

04 February 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

MarketAxess has reported its monthly trading volume for January 2021 totalled $575.3 billion, which consisted of $236.5 billion in credit volume and $338.8 billion in rates volume

AcadiaSoft acquires Quaternion to bolster risk management capabilities

04 February 2021 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Quaternion division of AcadiaSoft will be led by its co-founders CEO Donal Gallagher, and chief technology officer Roland Lichters

South Korea extends short selling ban

04 February 2021 South Korea
Reporter: Drew Nicol

FSC chair Eun Sung-soo has confirmed the ban will not expire in March but will remain until 2 May, at which point short selling may resume on KOSPI 200 and KOSDAQ 150 stocks

WeMatch appoints Shane Martin

04 February 2021 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Martin has joined WeMatch from JPMorgan Chase to take on the newly-created role of head of sales, securities finance

ISLA: CSDR buy-ins may deter asset owners from lending

03 February 2021 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

To avoid damaging market liquidity and stability, the trade body suggests the CSDR settlement discipline regime should be split in two, with cash penalties going live in February and the buy-ins held pending a “in-depth assessment"

CSDR consultation: EACH calls for delays to settlement discipline regime

03 February 2021 Brussels
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

EACH explains that a delay to CSDR’s SDR would provide market infrastructures and other market participants sufficient time to implement and would also avoid unnecessary duplicative implementation costs

BNY Mellon opens Spain office, Giralt to lead

03 February 2021 Spain
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Mariano Giralt will assume the role of branch manager and Ana Arias will be deputy branch manager of BNY Mellon’s new Madrid office

BrokerTec’s trading platform migrates to CME Globex

03 February 2021 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

CME Group has confirmed the completion the migration of BrokerTec’s US treasuries benchmark trading and repo platform to Globex

OCC sees securities lending activity increase YoY for January

03 February 2021 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Average daily volume of securities lending trades spiked in January along with a modest uptick in new loans

CSDR consultation is over, ICMA underscores need for mandatory buy-in reforms

02 February 2021 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ICMA has presented a ‘waterfall’ of proposals for implementing the SDR, based on its members’ assessment of what it considers most optimal in terms of minimising disruption to Europe’s bonds markets while still attaining the objectives of CSDR

Euroclear, CDCC and CDS to develop collateral management service for Canada

02 February 2021 Canada
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The utilisation of CDS’ Post-Trade Modernisation settlement platform and Euroclear’s Collateral Highway will enable market participants to mobilise collateral assets across repo, securities lending, cleared and uncleared margin accounts

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