BNY Mellon has signed a Framework Agreement with the Eurosystem to allow it to outsource settlement to the T2S settlement platform, which is set to go live in 2015.

Traiana,  provider of post-trade and risk solutions, has announced the first futures commission merchant (FCM) has completed production testing for Traiana’s central risk management infrastructure for swaps clearing. 

A collateral management service developed for customers of both Clearstream and
BNP Paribas Securities Services has now launched across multiple markets and
for both fixed income and equities. 

NASDAQ OMX NLX (“NLX”), the new London derivatives market launching a range of both short-term interest rate (STIRs) and long-term interest rate (LTIRs) euro- and sterling-denominated listed derivative products, announces the appointment of Daniel Hodson and Alan Gibbins as Non-Executive Board Directors of NLX.

Investor access to exchange-traded funds (‘ETFs’) has improved following the inclusion of 50 products from iShares on the FundSettle fund processing platform.

Today, the Austrian clearing house Central Counterparty Austria (CCP.A) successfully launched a newly developed real-time solution for clearing of cash market trades.

Sapient Global Markets announced its Compliance Management and Reporting System (CMRS) will be offered for customers connecting to The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Swap Data Repository (SDR) reporting. CMRS provides firms with a complete solution for more efficiently and effectively meeting regulatory reporting commitments.

MarkitSERV and CME Group have connected to support clearing for regulated OTC FX (foreign exchange) transactions, currently limited to non-deliverable forwards (NDFs).

FFastFill, provider of application services to the global financial marketplace, is pleased to announce today that they have successfully integrated their middle office application SEALS and back office system Eclipse to HKMEx. 

CME Clearing Europe, CME Group's European clearing house, today announced that it has received FSA approval and launched real-time, open access clearing of Interest Rate Swaps (IRS).