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MUFG Investor Services promotes Collard

01 July 2026 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Paul Collard brings more than 20 years of experience in securities finance to his new senior position

Citi appoints Levy

01 July 2026 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Antoine Levy joins the firm following over two years with Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking

ICMA updates SFTR reporting recommendations

01 July 2026 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

This latest update introduces four new questions and numerous further updates, reflecting recent regulatory developments as well as the ongoing discussions with reporting firms

Standard Chartered and LMAX Group join forces

01 July 2026 UK
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

Standard Chartered has executed digital asset prime brokerage trades with LMAX Group, demonstrating a digital asset intermediation model for spot Bitcoin and Ether with T+1 settlement

Digital Prime Technologies integrates with BitGo Bank & Trust

01 July 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Clients will be able to execute institutional-grade bilateral digital asset lending workflows, with BitGo providing regulated custody and offchain, real-time settlement through the Go Network, its institutional settlement infrastructure

LCH SA strengthens RepoClear

30 June 2026 France
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

HSBC Continental Europe has been onboarded as a second agent member for the repo sponsored clearing ecosystem, with PGGM extending its activity on the platform

Standard Chartered makes new appointments in Europe

30 June 2026 UK, Europe
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Margaret Harwood-Jones has been appointed as CEO for Europe and UK and J旦rg Hessenm端ller as CEO for SCB AG

Kraken goes live on Trever to bring prime brokerage to European firms

30 June 2026 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The integration extends Trever��s connectivity, bringing a prime brokerage relationship into the existing workflows institutional teams use across their digital asset operations

DTCC��s NSCC extends clearing hours to 24/5 model

30 June 2026 US, UK, Hong Kong, Australia
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The move expands the firm��s clearing hours from Sundays at 20:00 Eastern Time to Fridays at 20:00

EIB issues the first DLT native commercial paper on Clearstream��s D7

29 June 2026 Germany
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Citi facilitated the issuance acting as sole dealer and issuing and paying agent, and BIL, DekaBank, DZ BANK, Eurex Clearing, Union Investment, and Volksbank Mittlerer Schwarzwald participated as primary investors in the tokenised commercial paper

Pavlidou leaves BNY

29 June 2026 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Sofia Pavlidou served as product lead for central clearing services within BNY��s Global Collateral platform

Clearstream introduces ActivityNext

29 June 2026 Luxembourg
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The new solution replaces traditional management information system reporting with a centralised, on-demand view of operational performance