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Calastone hires trio to bolster its digital offerings
19 October 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Calastone has made three strategic hires to support the next stage of its growth and bolster its digital offering

DTCC’s CTM now used by more than 1,800 firms
12 October 2021 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s central trade manager (CTM) service for US domestic trade matching has grown to more than 1,800 firms, with organisations further consolidating global post-trade flows on a single platform

DTCC argues for extension of central clearing in US treasury markets
05 October 2021 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

FICC, the DTCC subsidiary, argues that central clearing provides widespread benefits to the US Treasury market, including lower credit risk and settlement risk, improved liquidity and market access, and a more orderly system for liquidating positions

Industry working group reports on cyber threat to market infrastructure
22 September 2021
Reporter: Bob Currie

An industry working group, sponsored by the CPMI-IOSCO specialist group on cyber resilience, has published a whitepaper on data protection and validation in the face of cyber threats to FMIs

DTCC’s Project Ion advances into development phase
15 September 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

“Project Ion holds the promise of new settlement functionality supported by robust technical capabilities and is a key part of our on-going efforts to further accelerate settlement," says Michele Hillery

DTCC partners with Fund Recs
14 September 2021 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Fund Recs’ Velocity service will connect to DTCC’s Global Trade Repository to retrieve and analyse trade data for accuracy and completion, simplifying and streamlining the reconciliation process

Laura Klimpel discusses DTCC’s proposed clearing service for SFTs
09 September 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Laura Klimpel tells AST that the new service will deliver a number of benefits to the industry including opportunities for increased capital efficiency for both borrowers and agent lenders

DTCC’s FICC launches sponsored general collateral service
07 September 2021 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

Initial trades on FICC’s sponsored GC service executed by Federated Hermes, BNY Mellon and J.P. Morgan Securities, enabling centrally cleared repo transactions to settle on BNY Mellon's tri-party platform

State Street’s Collateral+ goes live with DTCC’s Margin Transit Utility
24 August 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

By leveraging MTU, State Street’s Collateral+ business will now be able to more efficiently validate, enrich, settle, report and monitor third party collateral

DTCC’s NSCC enhances ETF solution
22 July 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The automated solution streamlines and simplifies the ETF collateral management process and adds new fixed income ETF capabilities

NSCC reinforces clearing solutions for ETFs
21 July 2021 United States
Reporter: Bob Currie

The DTCC clearing subsidiary adds clearing for muni and corporate bond ETFs and enhances automation for ETF collateral management

DTCC provides first electronic certificate as part of dematerialisation efforts
28 June 2021 US
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The new platform provides a paperless process for the delivery of CDs, increasing efficiency through automation, improving data quality, reducing risk, and providing greater transparency into the eligibility lifecycle