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OCC reaffirms leverage ratio objections

15 August 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The leverage ratio’s current exposure method could move liquidity away from the listed and centrally cleared markets back to the opaque bilateral over-the-counter markets, according to OCC's financial risk management chief...

Euroclear Bank bags ICBC ETF mandate

01 August 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

ICBC Credit Suisse Asset Management International has selected Euroclear Bank to clear and settle its first internationally listed China equity exchange-traded fund...

New mandate for Euroclear-DTCC collaboration

27 July 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Northern Trust has adopted the margin settlement service offering of GlobalCollateral, the joint venture between Euroclear and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation...

State Street joins margin settlement pilot programme

12 July 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Euroclear and DTCC have secured State Street as a participant in a pilot programme to test their joint venture’s margin settlement messaging service...

Clearstream: banks on track for T2S

08 July 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The vast majority of banks are confident that they’re prepared for implementation of TARGET2-Securities, according to a survey by Clearstream and Accenture...

Euroclear looks to strike gold with blockchain

21 June 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Euroclear collaborating with financial services company itBit to look into creating a settlement services for the London gold market, based on distributed ledger technology...

NeMa: Finish what T2S started

15 June 2016 Dubrovnik
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

There is still much work to do to implement Target2-Securities and achieve the harmonisation that everyone desires, according to a panel at the NeMa Conference in Dubrovnik...

OCC commends on QCCP extension

13 June 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Equity derivatives clearinghouse the Options Clearing Corporation has praised the European Commission’s decision to delay the deadline for US CCPs to become fully fledged qualifying central counterparties in the EU...