16 April 2026US, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia Reporter: Matthew Challis
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation intends to enhance operational resilience through the addition of redundancy, improving fault isolation, and enabling more robust contingency and recovery capabilities
13 April 2026South Korea, UK Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft
This membership enables KEB Hana Bank to use SwapAgent’s solutions for risk management and margin optimisation in the non-cleared derivatives market, while gaining greater capital and operational efficiencies
The continuation follows a review by Muqassa and Thomas Murray in line with CPMI-IOSCO self-assessment, where financial market infrastructures evaluate their compliance with the 24 principles
The collaboration modernises 24/7 institutional settlement, enabling clients to move value continuously for margin, collateral, and settlement workflows
The European Central Bank will be able to access secure and efficient settlement in central bank money through the Eurosystem’s TARGET2-Securities platform
The initiative builds on the existing agreement between both firms, under which Iberclear already facilitates the settlement of Spanish, French, and German government bond trades
The lab will support collaborative, exploratory work focused on how synchronised payments through the Bank of England’s Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) service could support the future evolution of wholesale market infrastructure
The group has outlined its counterparty risk-dependent stance on tokenised collateral, preferring systemically important institutions to third or fourth-tier banks
The agreement reinforces the long-standing partnership between two global financial institutions and creates a framework for expanding collaboration in capital markets, trading, clearing, data, RMB business, and emerging technologies
Shareholders will be able to use Figure’s Democratized Prime, a DeFi protocol to borrow against and lend out their stock, disintermediating the role prime brokers traditionally play
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