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ICMA welcomes six new firms

21 August 2026 Global
Reporter: Theodore Law

The International Capital Market Association now has 636 members in 71 jurisdictions

Clear Street Canada migrates clearing and execution to proprietary cloud-native platform

21 August 2026 Canada
Reporter: Theodore Law

Canadian institutional trading continues to run mostly on legacy infrastructure, largely owned by incumbent bank-dealers

STS Digital launches cross-asset portfolio margining

20 August 2026 Bermuda
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The offering will be available across the firm��s OTC business in spot, options, and structured products, and will allow institutions to post tokens already held as margin against positions in other assets

Axiology to participate in ECB��s Pontes and Appia Contact Group initial launch

20 August 2026 Lithuania
Reporter: Matthew Challis

Pontes and Appia are intended to shape a European capital markets environment where tokenised securities can move more efficiently across regulated infrastructure by reducing fragmentation

Kaizen welcomes Daniel to relationship management team

19 August 2026 UK
Reporter: Madison Hendrickson

Kerry Daniel joins the team with more than 20 years�� experience across fintech, post-trade operations, and regulatory change

ESMA consults on clearing activity at third-country CCPs

19 August 2026 Europe
Reporter: Theodore Law

The launch of the consultation aims to provide supervisory authorities with an overview of the scale, characteristics, and risk profile of EU firms�� exposures to such CCPs

Westpac joins 利卯郭肱 Finance Association

19 August 2026 Australia
Reporter: Theodore Law

Westpac is Australia��s first and oldest bank and has been providing services to customers for 200 years

Clearstream GSF volume outstanding jumps 29% YoY for July

18 August 2026 Luxembourg
Reporter: Theodore Law

The business reports a 31 per cent jump in year-to-date figures for its global securities financing business for the same month to ��984 billion

Clearstream joins Eurosystem Pontes testing ahead of launch

18 August 2026 Luxembourg
Reporter: Theodore Law

Clearstream will engage in a series of end-to-end tests ahead of the Pontes launch, planned for 21 September 2026

Barclays recruits Hraska

18 August 2026 US
Reporter: Theodore Law

Based in New York, Jim Hraska will report to Geoff Allen, global head of prime derivatives services

Goldman Sachs hires Cole

18 August 2026 Hong Kong
Reporter: Theodore Law

Based in Hong Kong, Cameron Cole brings experience in securities finance, data analytics, and APAC client engagement, with a technical background in Python, SQL, and VBA

Pirum selects Falco as it scales in the US

17 August 2026 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Jennifer Falco brings 23 years of experience across securities lending, equity finance, and prime services to her new role