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DTCC agrees to acquire Securrency
19 October 2023 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

As part of the mandate, Securrency will become a fully-owned subsidiary of DTCC and will operate under the name DTCC Digital Assets

HKEX launches settlement acceleration platform
04 October 2023 Hong Kong
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Designed to create improved efficiency and transparency for the market, Synapse is the latest enhancement to Stock Connect — a mutual market access programme that connects Mainland Chinese markets with those in Hong Kong

Brian Steele joins DTCC
27 September 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

DTCC has appointed Brian Steele as managing director and president of clearing and securities services, effective 2 October

DTCC releases a new T+1 scorecard for CTM community
20 September 2023 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

DTCC has released a new T+1 scorecard, available to its CTM community through its ITP Data Analytics service

DTCC, Clearstream, and Euroclear release digital assets paper
18 September 2023 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The companies have called for “increased collaboration to progress an ecosystem that currently includes fragmented standards, varying regulatory treatment, limited integrations with institutional-grade payment rails, and siloed liquidity

Impact of the SEC’s Treasury Clearing proposal could be “significant,” finds DTCC
13 September 2023 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The proposal would require a significantly larger portion of the U.S. Treasury cash and repo markets to be centrally cleared through an SEC-registered central counterparty

CME Group and DTCC receive regulatory approval for enhanced treasury cross-margining arrangement
12 September 2023 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The arrangement will enable capital efficiencies for clearing members that trade and clear both US Treasury securities and CME Group Interest Rate futures

Swift completes tokenised asset blockchain transfer experiments
31 August 2023 Belgium
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Following recent experiments, Swift has found that its infrastructure can facilitate the global transfer of tokenised assets over both public and private blockchain

DTCC’s T+1 IWG begins testing cycle
14 August 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Test Cycle 1 consists of free-form testing and corporate actions scenario testing, and will continue until 25 August 2023. The second test cycle will take place between 28 August and 8 September

Núñez joins DTCC as chief information security officer
19 July 2023
Reporter: AST

Post-trade market infrastructure specialist DTCC has appointed Yonesy Núñez to lead its information security and technology risk management

DTCC’s FICC passes $750 billion processing milestone
14 June 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

DTCC’s Fixed Income Clearing Corporation has processed more than US $750 billion in daily sponsored activity through its sponsored service

R3 releases beta version of new gen Corda platform
14 June 2023 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

Through consultation with the Corda community, this evolution is driven by scalability, enhanced privacy and security, user friendly dev tools and the new generation platform’s ability to interconnect and interoperate with other DLT platforms