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With market regulators pushing for a shortening of settlement cycles, new research from trade matching utility Omgeo indicates that trade failure rates may be as high as 10% in the equity market and seven per cent in fixed income markets.
16 May 2012
Nine central securities depositories have signed up to participate in the European Central Bank's controversial Target 2 Securities (T2S) platform, which is intended to streamline securities settlement across the Eurozone.
08 May 2012
European clearing house LCH.Clearnet has confirmed that it is in discussions to acquire International Derivatives Clearing Group (IDCG) from Nasdaq OMX as it bids to grow its interest rate swaps business in the US.
24 April 2012
International banking and securities regulators have set out new and more demanding standards for operators of payments, clearing and settlement systems as part of an international effort to boost the resiliency of the financial markets.
16 April 2012
European lawmakers have approved tough new rules governing trading in the over-the-counter derivatives market.
29 March 2012
Nyse Euronext is to spend $85 million on developing a new clearing house for its derivatives business in Europe, terminating an existing relationship with LCH.Clearnet.
28 March 2012
Nasdaq OMX has postponed plans to introduce interoperable clearing in the Nordic cash equity markets in April, citing regulatory uncertainties.
26 March 2012
The European Commission is promising to shake up cross-border securities settlement in the EU by cutting settlement timeframes and establishing a common regulatory framework for the region's 30+ central securities depositories.
07 March 2012
Clearstream has signed a letter of intent with Strate, the South African central securities depository that could see domestic collateral management services outsourced to the Deutsche Bourse unit.
19 January 2012
International regulatory authorities have called for the urgent creation of a universal Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) in their final report on the OTC derivatives data that should be collected, stored and disseminated by trade repositories (TRs).
17 January 2012
The BIS-backed Financial Stability Board has set up a working group to deliver concrete recommendations on governance issues relating to the management of new Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) in the global securities markets.
11 January 2012
Europe's central banks have awarded the two Target2Securities (T2S) connectivity licenses to Swift and a consortium made up of SIA and Colt.
09 January 2012
Bats Chi-X Europe has become the first trading platform operator to offer its customers the choice of four different clearing providers.
Markit and Euroclear Bank have inked a memorandum of understanding that will see them build an end-to-end post-trade platform for syndicated loans.
19 December 2011
Deutsche Börse and Nyse Euronext have offered the European Commission more concessions in a bid to allay antitrust concerns and secure approval for their $9 billion merger deal.
13 December 2011
SIX Securities Services is to push for clearing interoperability in Asia after doubling its market share of clearing London Stock Exchange trades following the introduction of similar measures in Europe.
08 December 2011
The European Central Bank is to offer 'early bird' incentives to central securities depositories that sign up to the Target 2 Securities (T2S) platform, as the controversial project to streamline the Euro area's securities settlements systems reaches a critical make-or-break stage in its development.
29 November 2011
Brazilian exchange operator BM&FBovespa has licensed technology from Swedish vendor Cinnober for a major revamp of its clearing operations.
09 November 2011
The London Metal Exchange has appointed former EuroCCP COO Trevor Spanner managing director of post-trade services.
08 November 2011
Paul Tucker, deputy governor of the Bank of England, says effective resolution regimes need to be put in place to help deal with the "mayhem" that would result if a central counterparty went bust.
25 October 2011
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