The ECSDA (European Central Securities Depositories Association) has just released its latest Factbook offering an up-to-date overview of the CSD landscape in Europe.

NOREXCO ASA is to start exchange services for the pulp and paper industry, becoming the world´s only derivatives exchange for the sector.

Intercontinental Exchange, the global network of exchanges and clearing houses, has reported the first trade in the Italian PSV futures contract at ICE Endex.

Russia's National Settlement Depository (NSD), the country’s central securities depository, says it has implemented back-to-back settlements technology for off-exchange DVP (delivery versus payment) transactions. Trading bank accounts and transactions may be in Russian rubles, US dollars, euro, or yuan.

Clearstream reports that the overall value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers registered an increase of 8 percent to EUR 13.2 trillion (compared to EUR 12.2 trillion in August 2014). 

Euroclear Bank has opened an account with Hong Kong’s Central Securities Depositary, the Central Moneymarkets Unit (CMU).

Eurex Clearing reports that it has admitted another major participant to EurexOTC Clear – the German Bund, represented by the Bundesrepublik Deutschland – Finanzagentur GmbH (the Federal Republic of Germany – Finance Agency).

Italy's Monte Titoli and its clients have successfully completed the migration to the European Central Bank’s Target2-Securities (T2S) platform, postponed to August 31 from June 22 when the first wave of implementation began, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) reports.

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Africa's largest exchange, says it has officially launched JSE Eris Interest Rate Swap (IRS) Futures, based on the Johannesburg Interbank Agreed Rate (JIBAR) and denominated in South African Rand (ZAR).

A big day tomorrow for Ashwin Kumar as he becomes Deutsche Börse Group’s global head of product development, a newly created role. 

The roll out of by the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) of new clearing and depository systems is desgined to accommodate growing demand in the capital market.

HSBC France is a new user of EurexOTC Clear for Interest Rate Swaps (IRS). It is connected as a direct clearing member and has already cleared its first transactions.

Switzerland's financial infrastructure provider SIX says that it performed well in the first half of 2015 and that results improved slightly compared with the previous year. 

The Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA) says Australia will move to T+2 settlement for fixed income products on March 7 2016.

Poland's clearing house KDPW_CCP and the Warsaw Stock Exchange (GPW) have opened access to the Risk Management Access (RMA) application for all entities clearing transactions on the exchange. 

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has today released an FAQ (frequently asked questions) document on the standardised approach for measuring counterparty credit risk exposures (SA-CCR).

Clearstream reports that its July 2015 figures record a new peak in assets under custody and continuing growth in all business areas.

Eurex and GMEX proudly report the launche of GMEX’s Euro-denominated IRS Constant Maturity Future (IRS CMF), saying that the first trades to take place since it became available on August 7 have been successfully executed, cleared and settled.

The international project focused on improving standards for retail real-time payments has published a first draft of ISO 20022 messages to be used by the global payments industry.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch will be a participant on the GMEX Exchange when it launches on Friday.