Tag: Clearing & settlement

Brown Brothers Harriman has become the first global custodian to go live on a new settlement service operated by Omgeo.

Regulatory pressures are encouraging more securities lending activity to take place through central counterparties. However more work is needed to win over beneficial owners, according to panellists at the IMN European Securities Lending Conference.

Deutsche Bank has merged its Listed Derivatives and Markets Clearing business with its Prime Services unit, according to a source close to the matter.

EurexOTC Clear has signed up HSBC France as its latest clearing member for interest rate swaps clearing service.

Australia will move to T+2 settlement for fixed income products at the same time as equities.

Spanish Exchange Group, Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, could see a delay to the launch of its new clearing and settlement system.

Markit’s Pierre Khemdoudi, managing director of Securities Finance, and Anthony Kruger, ETF Product Specialist, discuss the launch of the collateral Lists and the growth of exchange traded funds.

The European Commission has effectively set the date of October 2016 for buy-side firms to become subject to mandatory central clearing, but should they begin earlier than that? Jonathan Watkins presents the arguments for both cases.

A look at challenges facing hedge funds and the movement of their collateral.

European regulators have finally quashed the uncertainty surrounding the implementation date of mandatory central clearing rules for interest rate derivatives by fully approving the new rules.