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The European Central Bank has released preliminary figures outlining the fees that will be charged to market participants for using the forthcoming cross-border Target 2 Securities settlement system.
13 September 2010
As back office clearing and settlement issues rise up the regulatory agenda, the European Central Securities Depository Association (Ecsda) has moved to appoint its first secretary general and open a permanent office in Brussels, adjacent to the European Commission.
07 September 2010
LCH.Clearnet has moved to slash its fees and eliminate charges for high volume equity traders as it responds to the twin threats of growing competition and customer defections.
31 August 2010
US inter-dealer brokers have called on regulators to ensure fair access to newly-created Swap Execution Facilities as the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission meet to discuss governance and conflicts of interest in the clearing and listing of swaps.
20 August 2010
Spanish bourse Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) and Clearstream have begun testing their planned European OTC trade repository with the support of local banks BBVA and Banco Sabadell.
22 July 2010
Just days after US-based Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation outlined plans to launch a European trade repository, Euroclear-owned Xtrakter says it might develop its own.
08 July 2010
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has acquired Avox, a UK-based reference data firm majority-owned by Deutsche Börse in a cash deal valuing the business at a "low double digit million GBP figure".
01 July 2010
The London Stock Exchange has announced the appointment of post-trade business veterans Kevin Milne and Giulio Di Cerbo to the boards of Italian settlement system Monte Titoli and clearing counterparty Casa di Compenzione & Garanzia.
30 June 2010
Nasdaq OMX has initiated a pilot project with SEB and the Swedish National Debt office to offer central counterparty clearing of interest rate swaps as a prelude to the creation of a full scale clearinghouse for IRS in Swedish kronor.
23 June 2010
BNY Mellon is creating a new company to clear futures and derivatives trades on behalf of its institutional clients.
22 June 2010
The influential EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee has called for an outright ban on speculative trading in certain derivatives contracts and the imposition of higher capital requirements for firms handling contracts that are not cleared centrally.
03 June 2010
Spain's Bolsa Y Mercados Españoles (BME) has set back the launch of a planned OTC trade repository by six months until the end of the year. The project's cross-border aspirations have received a boost, however, with Clearstream banking announcing its support for the venture.
01 June 2010
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released for public comment a first set of drafts of corporate action announcement messages under the international ISO 200022 format.
18 May 2010
Standard & Poor's has cut the credit rating of Nyse Euronext and warned that LCH.Clearnet may face a similar fate following the exchange's decision to sever ties with the clearing house.
14 May 2010
Nyse Euronext says it plans to start clearing its own securities and derivative trades in Europe from 2012, severing ties with LCH.Clearnet.
12 May 2010
Executing a UK equity trade on the London Stock Exchange is significantly more expensive than on Chi-X or Bats Europe, with over 80% of the cost coming from trading fees, according to research commissioned by Euroclear.
04 May 2010
The European Central Bank confirms that it has ripped up its original timetable for the introduction of a pan-European securities settlement system as it seeks to streamline its working procedures and gain a new consensus around the controversial project.
14 April 2010
Andrew Douglas has quit the Brussels-based banking co-operative Swift to join the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, where he will lead the US depository's public affairs efforts in Europe.
Nyse Euronext and the London Stock Exchange are battling to become the first bourses to begin offering customers trading in US equities during European hours.
With the OTC derivatives market coming under increasing regulatory scrutiny, firms are looking to technology to help them improve transparency and efficiency, according to research conducted by TowerGroup for vendor SunGard.
13 April 2010
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