Deutsche Börse AG has agreed to buy global foreign exchange trading platform 360T Beteiligungs GmbH (360T) for a total purchase price of EUR 725 million.

CHAPS has confirmed that its operational hours will be extended from summer 2016 by one hour and forty minutes. 

Clearstream and Indian Clearing Corporation Limited (ICCL) have agreed to co-operate on collateral management and have signed an agreement on linking ICCL to Clearstream’s integrated collateral management engine, the Global Liquidity Hub.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has given Deutsche Börse Group full regulatory approval to operate Eurex Clearing Asia. 

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Stephen Scharf to the newly created position of chief security officer (CSO). T

Avox Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), has been awarded International Standard Organisation (ISO) 27001 Certification from the British Standards Institution (BSI).

The European Central Securities Depositories Association has issued a short think piece on the growing popularity of virtual currencies such as bitcoin and how this is impacting securities markets through the emergence of new forms of virtual currency-based investments. 

Clearstream has today published its latest set of monthly figures which show that in June the overall value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers rose by 9 percent to EUR 13.4 trillion (up from EUR 12.3 trillion in June 2014).

Russia's National Settlement Depository (NSD) says it has begun using SWIFT's KYC Registry, an industry database accumulating standardised information on financial organisations from 138 countries, to check its counterparties and clients.

TM Advisory Services announces the appointment of Chris Prior-Willeard and his team from Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM). 

Russia's National Settlement Depository (NSD) says that data from the country's National Securities Market Association (the NSMA Valuation Centre) are from today accessible to a wide circle of users via a network of local and global information distributors unifying the information channels of the Moscow Exchange, the National Settlement Depository (NSD) and a number of news agencies, including Interfax, Cbonds and Thomson Reuters.

The Annual General Meeting of Krajowy Depozyt Papierów Wartościowych (KDPW) on June 26 unanimously elected Dr Iwona Sroka as President of the Management Board of KDPW for a third term of office. 

Switzerland's SIX and Deutsche Börse have opened negotiations over the sale of the shares it holds in the joint ventures they own, STOXX AG (in which it holds 49.9 percent) and Indexium AG (50.1 percent). 

Euroclear Bank and China Construction Bank (CCB) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU). The aim is to further develop the offshore Renminbi (RMB) capital market.

Global clearing house LCH.Clearnet SA reported earlier this week that its CDSClear service has started clearing Markit iTraxx Senior Financials Indices along with all single name constituents of these indices.

Russia's National Settlement Depository (NSD) and China Central Depository and Clearing Co (CCDC), China’s central securities depository servicing governmental securities, have signed a memorandum of understanding.

A sextuple-datelined bulletin from Athens, Bucharest, Madrid, Milan, Utrecht and Warsaw, 25 June 2015 tells how six members of the European Automated Clearing House Association (EACHA) have joined forces to deliver centralised and optimised processing services for SEPA (Single European Payments Area) transactions.

Switzerland's SIX Securities Services confirms that it has gone live with Target2-Securities (T2S), the European Central Bank's settlement platform for securities transactions in central bank money. 

The T+2 Industry Steering Committee (T+2 ISC) has released a white paper setting out the timeline and activities required to move to a two-day settlement cycle (T+2) in the US by the end of Q3 2017. 

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) says that ICE Futures Europe, the UK multi-asset class derivatives exchange, will launch Eris standard interest rate futures contracts denominated in euro (EUR) and pounds sterling (GBP) on Monday June 29.