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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has fired the starting gun on new derivatives trade reporting rules by approving the first four trade repositories (TRs) under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (Emir).
08 November 2013
The Singapore Stock Exchange is to be the first customer for Millennium PostTrade, a new multi-asset clearing, settlement, risk and CSD technology platform from the London Stock Exchange's technology arm.
07 November 2013
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has received approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to operate a global trade repository (GTR) for OTC reporting and has begun processing its first trades.
06 November 2013
Yves Baguet is quitting his roles as Deutsche Börse chief technology officer and Clearstream CIO, and will be replaced by company man Richard Green.
11 October 2013
SIX Securities Services, the CSD group for Switzerland, has signed up to Swift's Value Added Network (VAN) to connect to Target2Securities.
16 September 2013
The London Stock Exchange will provide technology and business development help to Argentinian CSD Caja de Valores (CVSA) under a deal designed to boost the South American country's capital markets.
31 July 2013
Euroclear central securities depositories in Belgium, France and the Netherlands are to move to a T+2 settlement timeframe in October 2014, earlier than anticipated.
24 July 2013
The London Stock Exchange is to open a central securities depository (CSD) in Luxembourg to provide a full range of custody and settlement services across the eurozone.
16 July 2013
Telecoms firm Colt and payment processor SIA have won a deal to build the network infrastructure connecting the German, Italian, French and Spanish central banks for Target2 and Target2-Securities (T2S).
05 July 2013
Financial data outfit Markit has acquired the assets of Global Corporate Actions Validation Service from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
17 June 2013
LCH.Clearnet suffered a serious IT failure on 31 December, affecting payment processing and hindering the clearing house's contingency plans, according to the Bank of England.
26 March 2013
Pan-European cash equities clearing houses EuroCCP and the European Mulitlateral Clearing Facility (EMCF) have agreed to merge their operations.
14 March 2013
European banks and broker-dealers are lagging in their understanding of the impact of the European Central Bank's plans for harmonising settlement under the Target2Securities platform, with migration costs for back offices estimated at anywhere between seven million euros and EUR27 million.
06 March 2013
The Australian Securities Exchange has won government approval to maintain its monopoly on the clearing and settlement of cash equity trades, dashing the ambitions of LCH.Clearnet to invade the territory.
11 February 2013
Euroclear Nederland has called time on a 400-year tradition of paper securities certificates as it closes its vaults in Amsterdam and moves all share ownership documentation to an electronic register.
17 January 2013
A group of five central securities depositories (CSDs) from around the world have formed a liquidity alliance designed to help solve the global collateral shortage prompted by the 2007 financial crisis and subsequent regulatory changes.
16 January 2013
European depository Clearstream plans to pass on to its customers an estimated EUR30 million in development costs for migrating to the European Central bank's Target2-Securities (T2S) system.
20 December 2012
The European Central Bank may be forced into a rethink of the charging structure for the Target2Securities settlement platform as weak trading in Eurozone markets hits previously optimistic volume assumptions.
04 December 2012
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation has begun sifting through the soggy remains of approximately 1.3 million physical securities certificates stored in an underground vault in lower Manhattan which was overwhelmed by a tidal surge during superstorm Sandy.
15 November 2012
Market participants are not prepared for shorter settlement cycles, despite being strongly in favour of a move to T+2, according to a study from Omgeo.
31 October 2012
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