Pirum, the UK-based fintech specialising in securities finance, and Kingfield, an exceptions processing fintech, have collaborated to develop connectivity to assist clients in fully automating income claims. With this new connectivity, mutual clients using Kingfield’s solutions can leverage Pirum’s CoacsConnect service, linking to all their trading counterparties. This allows matching, reconciliations, and automation of the…
Category: Capital Markets
Senior management changes at Northern Trust
Some senior management changes at Northern Trust. Banking & treasury services is being combined with the capital markets business line, with Guy Gibson, global head of capital markets, leading the combined unit. Peter Sanchez, who was appointed head of banking and treasury services in 2022, is to leave the company. Marisa Kurk, head of the…
Pirum launches recall service
Pirum, the UK-based securities finance fintech, has gone live with a global and interoperable Recalls Service, which streamlines and automates the entire end-to-end recall workflow. Pirum claims that this solution “delivers significant efficiencies and assists with compliance ahead of T+1 regulation in the US, Canada and Mexico”. The service aims to transform the recall management…
Equilend and Broadridge team up on STP
EquiLend, the securities finance technology firm, has agreed with Broadridge Financial Solutions to facilitate STP to the NSCC’s CCP for equity securities finance transactions. The new service will deploy EquiLend’s liquidity sourcing options and allow clients to trade and automatically submit via Broadridge’s newly launched SFT Submission Service, which provides the market with the capability…
Clearstream partners with Consort1
Clearstream has partnered with Consort1, a fintech specialising in repo and securities lending, to enable the placement of secured deposits as tri-party custody agent. The placement was done in collaboration with Standard Chartered Bank, NatWest, Alpha Group, BankClarity, and Arlingclose, with Gloucestershire County Council being among the first UK local authorities to use the new…
TMF hires global head of cap markets
TMF Group, the Netherlands-based provider of compliance and administrative services, has appointed Cliff Pearce as global head of capital markets. Pearce joins from Intertrust, where he was global head of capital markets services. He reports to Daniel Max, head of global solutions.
More users join Broadridge’s DLR
DRW, Société Générale and another bank have executed intraday repo transactions on Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform. These latest transactions follow DLR’s first intraday repo transaction in April 2023 and expand the user network.
State Street hires global head of agency SL
Patricia Hostin has been appointed as global head of agency securities lending at State Street. Hostin will report to Gino Timperio, global head of financing solutions. Hostin joins from BlackRock, where she was most recently managing director for its financial resource management, where she executed the firm’s global strategy for optimising capital and balance sheet…
Komainu launches collateral management service
Komainu, the C.I.-based digital asset custody service provider that is backed by, amongst others, Nomura, has launched a collateral management service, Komainu Connect. The offering is live with a selection of clients, enabling leverage of their digital assets in collateralisation trades whilst they remain in secure, regulated custody, segregated and verifiable on chain. Komainu Connect…
UBS executes first intraday repo on DLR
UBS and an Asian bank have executed the first cross-border intraday repo transaction on Broadridge’s blockchain-enabled Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform. The platform provides a utility where market participants can agree, execute, and settle repo transactions, providing flexible settlement cycles based on counterparties’ needs. The DLR Repo platform significantly increases settlement velocity and collateral mobility,…