Operations & Technology Archive

Euroclear Bank has been granted access to Russia’s central securities depository to offer post-trade services for one of the most actively traded classes of Russian government bonds. read more>

Post-trade processor Omgeo has hired former JP Morgan prime services managing director Jeff Kiley as director of industry for the Americas. read more>

Institutions may choose to restrict their swap trading activities and segregate their business with US counterparties to keep regulatory costs under control and avoid falling foul of extraterritorial American derivatives regulations, a new study from consultancy Celent has asserted. read more>

Morgan Stanley’s Australian arm will now offer direct market access connectivity to the Australian Stock Exchange’s Centre Point Block. read more>

Broker ITG will offer futures execution and routing as part of an expansion to meet a spike in futures trading. read more>

As asset managers will outsource more of their business to cut costs and meet sweeping regulatory change, boosting the revenue of outsourcing providers by over 40% in the next five years, new research has shown. read more>

Pension funds and asset managers are nowhere near ready for the central clearing of OTC derivatives, delegates were told on the final day of the Sibos 2012 banking conference held in Osaka last week. read more>

Equity market participants believe planned new rules restricting high-frequency trading are the biggest threat to liquidity across European markets, according to the latest poll results from theTRADEnews.com showing traders' continued concern of impending regulation. read more>

The vast majority of large banks and broker-dealers believe quality of collateral should be given equal consideration to cost when choosing to connect to post-trade securities market structures, according to a recent study by SIX Securities Services. read more>