Eurex STS and Access Fintech join forces on CSDR
15 May 2020 Frankfurt
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Deutsche Boerse鈥檚 buy-in agent, Eurex Securities Transactions Services (Eurex STS), has partnered with Access Fintech鈥檚 to create integration between their complimentary services for the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR).
CSDR aims to improve settlement rates in securities markets by imposing punitive measures on firms that fail to settle trades and is due to come into effect in .
Access Fintech offers a CSDR solution that it says allows clients to manage the entire lifecycle of in-scope transactions.
By using the CSDR product in conjunction with its other live settlements product, Access Fintech says it can enable clients to manage the regulation鈥檚 penalties and buy-ins and more efficiently prevent fails entirely.
Meanwhile, provides a neutral marketplace for buy-ins to be completed when required.
Through the new partnership, mutual clients will be able to manage buy-ins via Eurex STS through the Access Fintech infrastructure, thereby minimising touchpoints, maximising efficiencies and ensuring a robust audit history against impacted trades, the firms explain.
A spokesperson for Eurex tells SLT that it is aiming to make the communication with its buy-in agent platform as seamless as possible.
鈥淗owever, while clients will be able to connect to our platform directly, some also require further connectivity choices,鈥� the spokesperson adds. 鈥淚n this respect, we are working with Access Fintech to discuss and analyse the possibility of our two platforms communicating with each other through our application programming interface.鈥�
Pardeep Cassells, head of financial products at Access Fintech, tells SLT: 鈥淎ccess Fintech [is] extremely excited in partnering with Eurex STS as the first confirmed buy-in agent, our CSDR offering is completely end-to-end, and Eurex鈥檚 position in that is critical.
Cassells notes that Access Fintech has the infrastructure to "manage the lifecycle and support any buy-in agents, making clients agnostic to the needs of individual agents, with Eurex being the start of the process".
Elsewhere, Eurex STS recently from the German Federal Financial Supervision Authority (BaFin), where it currently offers an automated and standardised way to avoid the punitive features of the CSDR settlement discipline regime.
CSDR aims to improve settlement rates in securities markets by imposing punitive measures on firms that fail to settle trades and is due to come into effect in .
Access Fintech offers a CSDR solution that it says allows clients to manage the entire lifecycle of in-scope transactions.
By using the CSDR product in conjunction with its other live settlements product, Access Fintech says it can enable clients to manage the regulation鈥檚 penalties and buy-ins and more efficiently prevent fails entirely.
Meanwhile, provides a neutral marketplace for buy-ins to be completed when required.
Through the new partnership, mutual clients will be able to manage buy-ins via Eurex STS through the Access Fintech infrastructure, thereby minimising touchpoints, maximising efficiencies and ensuring a robust audit history against impacted trades, the firms explain.
A spokesperson for Eurex tells SLT that it is aiming to make the communication with its buy-in agent platform as seamless as possible.
鈥淗owever, while clients will be able to connect to our platform directly, some also require further connectivity choices,鈥� the spokesperson adds. 鈥淚n this respect, we are working with Access Fintech to discuss and analyse the possibility of our two platforms communicating with each other through our application programming interface.鈥�
Pardeep Cassells, head of financial products at Access Fintech, tells SLT: 鈥淎ccess Fintech [is] extremely excited in partnering with Eurex STS as the first confirmed buy-in agent, our CSDR offering is completely end-to-end, and Eurex鈥檚 position in that is critical.
Cassells notes that Access Fintech has the infrastructure to "manage the lifecycle and support any buy-in agents, making clients agnostic to the needs of individual agents, with Eurex being the start of the process".
Elsewhere, Eurex STS recently from the German Federal Financial Supervision Authority (BaFin), where it currently offers an automated and standardised way to avoid the punitive features of the CSDR settlement discipline regime.
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