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DTCC advances ‘Cloud First’ strategy

16 April 2026 US, 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

KEB Hana Bank joins SwapAgent as a member

13 April 2026 South 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

Muqassa continues compliance with the PFMI

08 April 2026 Saudi Arabia
Reporter: Hansa Tote

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

BMO collaborates with CME Group and Google Cloud

30 March 2026 US and Canada
Reporter: Hansa Tote

ECB joins Euronext Securities Milan

17 March 2026 Italy
Reporter: Hansa Tote

Iberclear and LCH SA enhance collaboration

17 February 2026 Italy
Reporter: Hansa Tote

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

Tokenovate joins Bank of England Synchronisation Lab

09 February 2026 UK
Reporter: Hansa Tote

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

CME Group outlines tokenised cash and repo clearing initiatives

05 February 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The group has outlined its counterparty risk-dependent stance on tokenised collateral, preferring systemically important institutions to third or fourth-tier banks

LSEG and ICB agree on Memorandum of Understanding

30 January 2026 UK, China
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

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

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