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Thalia Chryssikou appointed as chair of AFME board
23 June 2021 London
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Chryssikou has worked at Goldman Sachs for 23 years after joining in 1998 as head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, interest rate, currency and emerging market strategies for the securities division

FactSet and Alveo team up to address ESG data integration
25 May 2021 UK
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Jonathan Reeve, senior vice president, head of content and technology solutions at FactSet, explains that solid and scalable ESG data integration has rapidly become a must-have in investment management

AFME calls for consistent ESG reporting requirements
15 April 2021 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

A central component to unlocking change at the scale needed is for the regulatory framework to enable the procurement and disclosure of high-quality, comparable ESG data, says AFME

AFME calls for regulatory certainty on the treatment of crypto assets
22 March 2021 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

AFME has also pushed for a review of existing financial services legislation to identify and address obstacles to distributed ledger technology innovation

Alliance of 14 trade body call for CSDR buy-in delay
12 March 2021 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ISLA, ICMA and ISDA are among 14 trade bodies to renew calls for the buy-ins rules to be shelved until "essential" amendments are in place and give in-scope entities more time to prepare

AFME: CSDR’s SDR mandatory buy-ins present ‘significant risk’ to Europe’s COVID recovery
12 February 2021 UK
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

“The periods of high volatility and low liquidity observed during COVID-19 crisis would have been further exacerbated by the existence of a mandatory buy-in regime,” AFME explains

COVID-19 will be a ‘catalyst’ for future tech and operations change, survey reveals
18 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The Technology and Innovation in Europe’s Capital Markets report surveyed the largest investment banks in Europe to assess their technological progress over the past two years

ESMA confirms recognition of three UK CCPs post Brexit
30 September 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

LCH, ICE Clear Europe, and LME Clear will be eligible to provide services in the EU after the end of the transition period following the withdrawal of the UK from the EU

EC adopts time-limited equivalence decision for UK CCPs
21 September 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

The European Commission has adopted a time-limited decision to allow financial market players 18 months to reduce their exposure to UK central counterparties

AFME calls on EC to unlock the potential of new technologies
14 September 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

AFME calls for the EU to unlock innovative competitive, and resilient European capital markets in the digital age

SRD II: the industry is ready to ‘varying degrees’ as directive goes live
03 September 2020 London
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The industry is “ready to varying degrees” for SRD II, which went live today, according to Demi Derem, general manager, investor communication solutions international of Broadridge

AFME: Capital markets show support with record funding
14 July 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The report analysed the impact of COVID-19 on European capital markets during the four months since the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic