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Investment banks ‘overconfident’ on SFTR compliance

10 June 2019 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Tier one, tier two and tier three investment banks are ‘overconfident’ about the EU’s new Securities Financing Transactions Regulation implementation, according to a new Regulatory Outlook Report from Luxoft

ISLA to keep ESG in focus

07 June 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The ISLA will continue to keep environmental, social and corporate governance in focus, according to its CEO, Andrew Dyson.

Repo volumes Crest $200 billion for the first time in decade

07 June 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Repo volumes Crest reached $200 billion for the first time in decade as total average ADV were $211.5 billion in repo traded during May, according to Tradeweb

ISLA: Still “much to be done” to land SFTR

07 June 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

While ISLA remains fully committed to SFTR’s implementation timeline, they are still mindful of the considerable work and testing that needs to be done

Barclays appoints new global head of equities

06 June 2019 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Barclays has appointed Fater Belbachir as global head of equities

AMF plans to improve European rulebook

06 June 2019 Paris
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The French financial markets regulator, Autorité des marchés financiers, is making concrete proposals to improve the quality of the European rulebook and its ability to evolve

NSD CMS federal treasury repos value grew by nearly 5 times in a year

06 June 2019 Moscow
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The value of federal treasury repos conducted via the CMS of Russia’s NSD amounted to RUB 5.3 trillion in Q1 2019, 4.9 times more than in Q1 2018

Arbuthnot Latham moves to Euroclear’s investment fund service

05 June 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Arbuthnot Latham has moved to Euroclear’s EUI CREST investment fund service which delivers end to end automation

Mixed May results for Eurex

05 June 2019 Frankfurt
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Eurex saw mixed results for May as despite decreases in total trading volume there were increases and a number of new trading records elsewhere

Femi Orangun departs DeltaOne Solutions

05 June 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Femi Orangun has departed DeltaOne Solutions, part of IHS Markit, where he spent more than 15 years as a primary architect of benchmark feed platforms