Euroclear Bank and BNP Paribas Securities Services have made an agreement that will enable their mutual clients to access a larger pool of collateral for triparty transactions. Clients will be able to use fixed-income and equity assets held with BNP Paribas Securities Services as collateral in triparty managed transactions at Euroclear Bank.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and Euroclear Bank will jointly launch a pilot platform for the cross-border investment and settlement of debt securities (Pilot Platform) that will be operational on 30 March 2012, to enhance cross-border debt securities settlement efficiency and strengthen the capacity for debt securities issuance activities in the Asian region

Blackrock has become one of the first partners to join Euroclear's new offering, FundSettle, which gives triparty cash collateral takers the option to re-invest cash into an array of money market funds. Euroclear's clients can now access Blackrock's family of money market funds on FundSettle.

Several Euroclear senior management changes are expected to be implemented in early 2012, once the relevant regulatory approvals are obtained.

Euroclear France's new triparty collateral management service, will collaborate with Banque de France to collateralise exposures arising from domestic credit operations conducted by the French central bank. Chief Executive Officer of Euroclear France, Belgium and Nederland, Valérie Urbain, said that the new arrangement "heralds a new era for euro-zone collateral management efficiency, particularly for central banks and institutions that rely on such credit".

Euroclear Bank, which recently orchestrated the first swap of Greek government bonds between a number of consenting primary dealers in such securities, will run a second swap in such debt instruments next week.

Capital Precision and Euroclear agree to centralise the provision of worldwide shareholder identification data to equity issuers in key markets.