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Bloomberg launches new solution within FailStation for CSDR compliance
07 December 2021 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Bloomberg has launched a new solution within its FailStation platform, a settlement-exception management tool, to support compliance with the Central Securities Depositories Regulation, ahead of the upcoming February 2022 implementation deadline

EU legislators postpone implementation of CSDR mandatory buy-in provisions
25 November 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

In recent months it has widely been assumed that the postponement would be announced some time this month

AFME: CSDR mandatory buy-in rules are “fundamentally flawed”
21 October 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) rulings, relating to mandatory buy-ins, are “fundamentally flawed”, according to James Cunningham, head of European regulatory and market initiatives at BNY Mellon

ESMA prioritises sustainability, CMU and digitalisation for 2022
28 September 2021 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

EU securities market regulator takes on new supervisory powers for benchmarks and data service providers and will concentrate on building a single rulebook and promoting its role as an EU capital markets data hub

ESMA recommends delaying buy-in rules
27 September 2021 Germany
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The EU regulator has written to the European Commission urging it to reconsider a delay of the mandatory buy-in regime

Clearstream secures CSDR licence for its German CSD
25 August 2021 Germany
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The authorisation is effective from 24 August 2021 and represents the final step in achieving full CSDR compliance for all of Clearstream’s CSDs

ESMA: European Commission “needs to clarify certain aspects of CSDR”
09 August 2021 France
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

ESMA has spoken to National Competent Authorities and other relevant market players about their plans to use DLT for securities services in the coming future

Inadequacies of middle-office resulting in settlement failures, survey finds
27 July 2021 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

In a recent Torstone Technology survey, 60 per cent of institutions said that settlement failures, attributed to inadequacies of the middle-office, are still a significant problem for their business

Capco and AccessFintech partner over data workflow solution
26 July 2021 UK
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

Capco has partnered with AccessFintech to enhance the engineering and delivery of the latter’s data management and workflow solution

Joint Associations (again) request clarification on CSDR mandatory buy-ins
15 July 2021 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

Letter from trade associations recommends that mandatory buy-in rules be “disapplied” from SDR provisions to come into force by February 2022

European Commission issues Interim Report on CSDR
30 June 2021 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

Report says Commission will consider a REFIT legislative review of CSDR, subject to an impact assessment

ESMA responds to European Commission’s Review of CSDR
28 May 2021 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

EU securities market regulator calls for reform of T2S supervision framework