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CDs Dematerialized at DTCC
Infrastructure giant DTCC today confirmed the launch of its new Underwriting Central (UWC) platform, an automated service for electronic Certificates of Deposit (CD) offered...
ACA: 97% of Firms are Reporting Incorrectly Under MiFIR/EMIR
97% of reports under MIFIR/EMIR contain inaccuraciesOn average each report has 30 separate error typesDespite this, 87% of firms are confident in the quality...
Volatile Markets Require Modernized and Digital Infrastructure Models
Nasdaq and Celent have released the results of the CIO Market Infrastructure Survey 2021, commissioned by Nasdaq. Based on interviews with 25 chief information officers and senior technology leaders...
OCC Hits the Brakes on Crypto and Fintech: What Next?
When Michael Hsu became acting U.S. Comptroller of the Currency earlier this month, banking industry experts predicted a shift away from the aggressive innovation...
ISDA Expands Clause Library to Cover Collateral Documentation
ISDA said today that it has expanded ISDA Clause Library to cover its collateral documentation, a development it said will bring greater efficiency and standardization to...
Gartner Identifies Top 10 Data and Analytics Technology Trends for 2021
Gartner, Inc. has identified what it says are the top 10 data and analytics (D&A) technology trends for 2021 that can help organizations respond to change,...
White Paper: Increased Adoption of Central Clearing in US Treasury Market Needed
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released a new white paper that explores the risks created by U.S. Treasury market fragmentation. The...
State-Backed Digital Currencies: Why Are World Governments Looking Towards Them?
Governments always seek ways to make their economies more efficient. And with the rapid growth of the cryptocurrency market, they turned their eyes to...
Technology Trends in Institutional FX
Daily trading volumes in global foreign exchange markets topped $1.79 trillion in November 2020, according to CLS, making FX by far the most heavily...
Reaching for Yield in Decentralized Finance
With junk bonds yielding less than 4% and sovereign debt ranging in yields from negative to 2%, investors have been settling for meager yields...
MBS Day Ahead: Here’s The New Short-Term Trend to Watch
- The absence of stronger gains this week means bonds remain inside their short-term uptrend (see chart)- 100% focus on UMBS 2.5 coupon (why?)- "lower high" yield...
DTCC Outlines 2-Year Roadmap to T+1 Settlement
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today released a two-year industry roadmap for shortening the settlement cyclefor U.S. equities to one business day...
Biden’s Regulatory Policies: Three of the Most Impacted Areas
Since assuming office, President Biden has made combatting Covid-19 and bolstering the US economy the immediate priorities for his administration. Behind the scenes, however,...
Citadel and Robinhood call for T+1 settlement cycle
Vladimir Tenev, CEO of Robinhood, an American financial services company known for offering commission-free trades of stocks and exchange-traded funds via a mobile app,...
ISLA Addresses Securities Lending Digitization
The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA), has confirmed the publication of ‘Legal Clause Library & Legal Data Standards‘, a white paper produced in association...
Ray Dalio’s Bubble Indicator Is Showing Warning Signs in Emerging Tech Stocks
With U.S. stocks at levels that seem to defy the economic realities that are facing businesses as a result of the global pandemic, market...
Want to be AML Whistleblower? Not So Fast
You work in the anti-money laundering department of a major bank or brokerage and overhear a conversation about how suspicious activity reports are not...
Automating the End-to-End Collateral Lifecycle
Speaking at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s (ISDA’s) Collateral Management Virtual Showcase, Duncan Scott, Product Management Consultant for DTCC’s Margin Transit Utility (MTU),...
Why Shortening the Settlement Cycle Will Benefit the Industry & Investors
DTCC has long advocated for shortening the settlement cycle to enhance market resilience, reduce margin requirements and lower costs for investors. In 2017, we...
MBS Day Ahead: Is This The Bounce We’ve Been Looking For?
After 8 straight days with yields closing higher than they opened, bonds are starting out in stronger territory with a chance to reverse the...
EC gives green light to Euroclear UK & Ireland for temporary equivalence extension
The European Commission has granted Euroclear UK & Ireland (EUI) the ability to continue to offer issuer central security depository (CSD) services after the...
COVID-19 inspires derivatives post trade renovations
A market survey by Acuiti has found that almost all tier one and tier two banks queried plan to invest more in derivatives post-trade...
CLS rolls out netting calculation service to Finastra clients under partnership
Foreign exchange settlement specialist CLS will provide its netting calculation platform to clients of global FinTech provider Finastra under a new partnership. Finastra’s clients, including...
Banks to increase spend on post-trade infrastructure after failures in market volatility
Major investment banks will increase investment in post-trade infrastructure after reporting failures with back-office processes during the market volatility earlier this year.According to a...
Central Bank of Iceland goes live with new interbank payment system
The Central Bank of Iceland (CBI) and SIA, a European hi-tech company in payment services and infrastructures, have gone live with the new real-time...
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