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…
Category: Capital Markets
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…
Resona expands with BBH
BBH has expanded its relationship with Resona Asset Management Co. Ltd., an investment management firm based in Japan, to include InfoFX, BBH’s automated third-party FX solution. Resona is the first Japanese investment manager to implement InfoFX, a securities-based FX solution that enables automated FX order generation with execution netting capability. InfoFX supports FX orders across…
Artemis outsources trading to NTRS
Artemis, a UK-based asset manager with >GBP25.8bn (USD33.1bn) AuM, has appointed Northern Trust’s Integrated Trading Solutions to provide outsourced trading services. The appointment expands the capabilities to be provided by Northern Trust to Artemis. In 2023, Northern Trust was selected by Artemis to provide a range of services including investment operations solutions, fund administration, depositary,…
AmerX deploys SFCM
Americas Executions (AmerX), a full-service broker-dealer, has implemented Broadridge’s Securities Finance and Collateral Management (SFCM) platform to support its newly launched securities lending business. SFCM will enable AmerX to manage its securities lending operations, including collateral management, trade lifecycle management and risk assessment.
Pirum links with BNPP
Pirum, the UK fintech for securities finance automation and collateral management, has connected its exposure and collateral management solutions to BNP Paribas’ securities services business. As a result of the collaboration, mutual clients of BNPP’s triparty collateral services and Pirum now gain automated exposure and collateral management processing visibility, efficiency and transparency across their securities…