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GameStop: The real data story and what it means for securities lending

28 January 2021 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

GameStop’s skyrocketing share price, led by retail investors mobilised on a Reddit forum, has captured the world’s attention with headlines citing short sellers' losses running into the billions of dollars, but does this tell the whole story?

Broadridge to become an approved SFT submitter for DTCC

28 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Broadridge is building and testing in its role as an SFT submitter for the new SFT clearing service offered by DTCC’s NSCC, which is expected to launch in Q3

MarketAxess reveals 2020 Regulatory Reporting Hub and SFTR profits and costs

28 January 2021 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The firm’s post-trade business now boasts almost 1,000 active clients, including more than 500 new firms brought onboard as part of the RRH deal

AccessFintech secures two senior hires

28 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Access Fintech has appointed Paynter Higgins from Collibra and Sarah Lloyd Parry from Avora to its executive management team to “support the company’s next stage of growth”

EU accepts US CCP regulatory equivalency

27 January 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Allison Herren Lee, acting chair of the SEC, says: “The EC’s decision is an important first step on the road to providing greater regulatory certainty for CCPs and their members on both sides of the Atlantic"

LIBOR transition: 85% of uncleared UK derivatives market ready

27 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The FCA’s Edwin Schooling Latter says the success of this protocol means “a major reduction in risk faced by the 12,000 plus firms who have already signed, and for the system as a whole”

BCBS proposes changes to SFT haircuts

27 January 2021 Switzerland
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Basel committee has proposed technical amendments to the calculation of minimum haircut floors for securities financing transactions to avoid common misunderstandings

Sharegain makes two new senior hires

27 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Chris Dimmick joins as head of relationship management from AcadiaSoft, while James Cosh becomes a senior operations manager from Pirum Systems

Citi launches new futures algorithm platform

26 January 2021 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Citi’s new flagship algorithm, Arrival, comes as part of a suite of intelligent execution algorithms for global listed derivatives and engineered for the futures markets across all major exchanges in the North America, Europe and Asia Pacific

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