ICMA - Announcements, Interviews & News Stories

ICMA launches repo market forum

ICMA Limited, the market services division of the International Capital Market Association, is pleased to announce the expansion of its market forums to include Repo.

07 September 2007

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ECM and UBS use ICMA's Trax2 for live repo matching

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) Ltd is pleased to announce that European Credit Management Ltd (ECM), a buyside firm, has commenced live matching of repurchase agreements (repo) with UBS for the first time via TRAX2.

18 July 2007

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ICMA names Paul Richards head of regulatory policy

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Richards to the position of Head of Regulatory Policy and member of the ICMA Executive Committee.

02 July 2007

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Chi-X introduces transaction reporting via ICMA's TRAX2

Instinet Chi-X Limited, a pan-European equity alternative trading system (ATS), today announced the introduction of transaction reporting for its participants via the International Capital Market Association's TRAX2 reporting system.

05 June 2007

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FSA gives Icma's TRAX2 conditional approval as reporting mechanism

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) is pleased to announce that its TRAX2 system has received conditional full approval from the UK Financial Services Authority as an Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM).

30 May 2007

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CheckFree says Daiwa extends TradeFlow use to TRAX2

CheckFree Corporation (Nasdaq: CKFR) today announced that Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Limited (Daiwa) has extended its use of CheckFree TradeFlow, CheckFree's post-trade securities transaction process management solution.

04 April 2007

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ICMA reports take up of trade matching system by Italian banks

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has announced that its new TRAX2 trade matching and regulatory reporting system is now being adopted by an increasing number of international banks to match and report trades in the capital market.

14 March 2007

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Electronic repo trade booming - ICMA survey

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) today released the results of its 12th semi-annual survey of the European repo market.

01 March 2007

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ICMA says international bond market up 10.5% in 2006

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) today released its latest figures on the size of the international bond market which show that at the end of 2006 the size of the market, measured in terms of outstanding debt in all currencies, had increased to US$ 10,545 billion a 10.5% increase in the total size of the market at the end of 2005.

05 January 2007

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ICMA enhances Trax2 trade matching system

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) today announced that Trax2, the MiFID ready trade matching and regulatory reporting system for the OTC market, has successfully added enhanced its Repo, SQL and derivative matching functionalities.

13 December 2006

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ICMA, ISDA respond to EC MiFID bond market call

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has submitted its response to the European Commission's Call for Evidence on Pre- and post-trade transparency provisions of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) in relation to transactions in classes of financial instruments other than shares.

21 September 2006

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ICMA, ISDA and BMA form global capital markets board

Today the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and The Bond Market Association (BMA), three organizations representing broad sectors of the global financial markets, announced the formation of the Global Capital Markets Board (GCMB).

13 February 2006

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