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LiquidShare selects BTP’s Sextant for Daml platform
29 June 2021 France
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

LiquidShare was created in 2017 by eight European financial institutions, including AFS Group, BNP Paribas Securities Services, CACEIS, Caisse des Dépôts, Euroclear, Euronext, S2iEM and Société Générale

BoE confirms supervisory action against Euroclear UK and Ireland following settlement outage
25 June 2021 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Bank of England has initiated supervisory action against Euroclear UK and Ireland in connection with an outage in its CREST settlement system in September 2020

ANNA appoints KDPW as new board member
18 June 2021 UK
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

ANNA collaborates with other standards bodies and industry to continuously develop and promote standards in line with industry needs and market evolution

Francesco Vanni d’Archirafi becomes chairman of the Euroclear group boards
15 June 2021 Brussels
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Francesco Vanni d’Archirafi joins Euroclear from Citigroup where he has been the New York-based CEO of Citi Transaction Services and Citi Holdings

Euroclear Sweden appoints new chief technology officer
27 May 2021 Sweden
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Olofsson will be part of the Euroclear Sweden Executive Committee and will be reporting to the Euroclear Sweden CEO Rodger Storm

European CSD Association elects new chair and executive committee members
20 May 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The European Central Securities Depositories Association has named Mark Gem of Clearstream Banking as chair of the board

Euroclear’s Q1 report reveals assets under custody growth
28 April 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Euroclear’s Q1 2021 report has revealed that assets under custody increased by 16 per cent to €34.1 trillion

Euroclear’s CSDs launch new platform for shareholder analysis
22 April 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

“The launch represents an important milestone in fostering direct communication between issuers and their shareholders while bringing increased efficiencies to the market,” says Isabelle Delorme

Euroclear to acquire MFEX Group
26 March 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The transaction is expected to close in H2 2021, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals

Euroclear shifts €100bn of Irish securities from UK to EU operations
18 March 2021 Ireland
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The settlement of Irish securities worth around €100 billion traded on Euronext Dublin markets on 15 March took place in Euroclear Bank on 17 March

SWIFT approves KDPW ISO20022 buy-in message for CSDR
26 February 2021 Poland
Reporter: Drew Nicol

As the first buy-in messages ever to be registered, they set the reporting standard, developed from scratch in ISO20022, KDPW says

HSBC selected as custodian for SGX and Euroclear’s new Orchid bond
19 February 2021 Singapore
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

SGX and Euroclear were both supported by HSBC in its capacity as custodian bank, arranger and paying agent in the setting up of the Orchid bond structure