Citi has struck an innovative deal with Maybank Securities in Singapore, enabling Maybank Securities to facilitate the lending of retail clients’ global equity holdings using Citi’s platform, Citi Securities Lending Access. Maybank Securities will leverage its position in Singapore and its large ASEAN client base to utilise the CSLA platform. Launched in 2021, CSLA combines…
Category: Capital Markets
FAB selects Broadridge
First Abu Dhabi Bank has chosen Broadridge to support the build-out of its global agency securities finance business.
Avanza outsources to Northern Trust
Avanza Fonder, a Stockholm-based fund company providing services for private clients, has appointed Northern Trust to provide its Integrated Trading Solutions (ITS) outsourced trading desk services. Avanza Fonder is a wholly owned subsidiary of Avanza Bank Holding. The fund company manages funds in-house and in collaboration with other managers. Northern Trust will provide outsourced trading…
HQLAx leads repo trial on DLT
HQLAᵡ, Clearstream and Eurex Repo have collaborated to facilitate intraday DvP repo transactions using DLT in the ECB trials. The ECB trials are part of the Eurosystem exploratory work on new technologies for wholesale central bank money settlement, with trials denoting production transactions using real securities and cash. The transactions took place between Goldman Sachs…
Cboe to clear European SFTs
Cboe Clear Europe, the pan-European clearing house, has received regulatory approval to clear European securities financing transactions (SFTs), granted by De Nederlandsche Bank and the Autoriteit Financiële Markten. With this approval, Cboe Clear Europe is set to introduce a first-of-its-kind service for European SFT transactions in cash equities and ETFs, which includes central clearing, settlement…
BNY integrates collateral platforms
BNY has integrated its LendingLite service with its new CollateralOne for buy-side platform, which expands its triparty offering for the buy-side by connecting clients to other areas of BNY’s ecosystem, helping clients centralise how they manage their collateral and financing activities, while providing the option of specials-only lending. Connecting BNY’s LendingLite service with the CollateralOne…
Northern Trust upgrades with CloudMargin
Northern Trust has launched an enhanced active collateral solution designed to help institutional investors manage their collateral more efficiently while meeting the demands of market change. The capability, delivered in collaboration with CloudMargin, a collateral management fintech, will provide enhanced service capabilities, increased transparency on a real-time basis and platform resiliency. This includes automated asset…
BBH partners with BestX
BBH has partnered with BestX, the State Street-owned FX TCA vendor, to provide its currency administration platform users with independent TCA. This will improve transparency through independent execution analysis, adding to BBH’s existing FX hedging solutions, which include multi-bank agency execution and performance analytics.
Pirum extends Euroclear linkages
Pirum, the fintech for securities finance and collateral management, has extended its CollateralConnect service integration with Euroclear’s triparty collateral management platform to support mutual clients’ collateral optimisation needs. The extended connectivity between Pirum and Euroclear allows mutual clients to direct collateral allocations to Euroclear’s triparty collateral management environment. To determine their optimal collateral allocation, mutual…
Citi & Fidelity conclude PoC
Citi and Fidelity International have run a PoC of an on-chain money market fund with a digital foreign exchange swap solution which delivers real-time settlement. This on-chain solution could enable investors to conduct seamless and real-time settlement of multi-asset positions in different currencies. The collaboration is under the aegis of Project Guardian, a Singapore-based collaboration…