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CFTC Commissioner Berkovitz To Keynote At The 2019 ISDA Annual North America Conference

Date 17/09/2019

Adam Farkas Steps Down As EBA Executive Director

Date 17/09/2019

Adam Farkas has announced his resignation from his post as Executive Director of the European Banking Authority (EBA), which will be effective on 31 January 2020.

Cappitech And Kaizen Reporting Publish Findings Of SFTR Implementation Survey

Date 17/09/2019

Cappitech and Kaizen Reporting today published the findings of the SFTR implementation survey conducted by Cappitech, a leading provider of regulatory reporting and intelligence solutions for the financial services industry, and analysed by Kaizen Reporting, global leaders in quality and accuracy for regulatory reporting, in which securities financing market participants were asked to help establish the industry’s state of readiness.

Bank Of England: Minutes Of The Wholesale Distribution Steering Group - July 2019

Date 17/09/2019

The Wholesale Distribution Steering Group have the objective of overseeing the design of a new end-state model for wholesale cash distribution. This is to support the UK in an environment of declining cash volumes.

BME: GREENOAK SPAIN HOLDINGS SOCIMI II Receives Favourable Report From MAB

Date 17/09/2019

The Coordination and Admissions Committee of the Mercado Alternativo Bursátil (MAB) has submitted to the Board of Directors a favourable report on GREENOAK SPAIN HOLDINGS SOCIMI II (GORE II), following a thorough review of all the information presented by the company.  

CFTC Chairman Tarbert Announces Executive Leadership Appointment - Dorothy DeWitt To Lead CFTC’s Division Of Market Oversigh

Date 17/09/2019

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Heath P. Tarbert today announced the following executive leadership appointment:

• Dorothy D. DeWitt, to serve as Director of the Division of Market Oversight

Pico Appoints Former ITG CEO, Francis J. Troise, To Its Board Of Directors - Role To Support Pico As It Accelerates And Leads The Next Phase Of Transformation In Capital Markets Technology Services Sector

Date 17/09/2019

Pico, a leading provider of technology services for the financial markets community globally, today announced the appointment of Francis J. Troise to its Board of Directors supporting the firm’s growth and innovation trajectory.  

Moscow Exchange: REPO Risk Parameters Change For The Security CHMF

Date 17/09/2019

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 17.09.2019, 15-28 (MSK) the lower bound of the REPO rate (up to -86.57 %) and IR Risk Rate (up to -2.63 rub) for the security CHMF were changed. New values are available here. 

Numis Securities Transforms Post Trade Operations With Torstone’s Cloud Based Platform

Date 17/09/2019

Torstone Technology, a leading provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing systems, today announces that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Numis the leading independent Investment Bank to implement Torstone’s award-winning, cloud-based platform, Inferno, to process their equities business.

AFME Appoints New CEO

Date 17/09/2019

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has announced today that it has appointed Adam Farkas to succeed long-standing Chief Executive, Simon Lewis.