Jonathan Watkins's profile photo

Jonathan Watkins

London

Editor, Seven Publishing Group and Freelance Writer at Freelance

Group Editor at 7C3

Arsenal. Content. Digital. Couch-based gambling.

Articles

  • 2 months ago | sites.libsyn.com | David Chadderton |John McGrath |Jonathan Watkins |Ntombizodwa Nyoni |Monique Touko

    The programme for the tenth biennial Manchester InternationalFestival for 2025 was announced on 11 March at Aviva Studios. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to John McGrath, FactoryInternational’s Chief Executive and Artistic Director, and CreativeDirector Low Kee Hong, as well as Jonathan Watkins, director andchoreographer of A Single Man, and the writer, NtombizodwaNyoni, and director, Monique Touko, of Liberation. The 2025 Manchester International Festival runs from Thursday 3to Sunday 20 July.

  • Mar 6, 2025 | thetradenews.com | Jonathan Watkins |Jon Watkins

    German asset manager Ampega has adopted a new front-office solution from SimCorp in a bid to streamline its system landscape and reduced the total cost of ownership. The €180 billion asset manage will use the technology to manage its investment portfolios and funds, order and execution, compliance, post-trade processing, market risk and front-office data. The implementation was executed in phases, ensuring a smooth transition without disrupting ongoing business.

  • Feb 28, 2025 | thetradenews.com | Jonathan Watkins |Chris Lemmon |Claudia Preece

    The European Central Bank (ECB) has resolved an outage with its pan-European settlement system T2S, which caused commotion across the securities services industry throughout Thursday. The T2S operated said the incident had been caused due to a hardware component. The ECB closed communication channels with network service providers at 10:06 but reopened them at 18:20 CET. As a result, the delivery-versus-payment cut-off has been postponed by six hours from 16:00 to 22:00.

  • Feb 24, 2025 | thetradenews.com | Jonathan Watkins |Wesley Bray

    The UK’s move to a T+1 settlement cycle could release £1 billion of margin currently required at central counterparties, according to the Bank of England’s (BoE) executive director, financial market infrastructure, Sasha Mills.

  • Feb 6, 2025 | thetradenews.com | Jonathan Watkins |Wesley Bray

    The UK T+1 Accelerated Settlement Task Force (AST) has published its implementation plan for the UK’s transition from T+2 to T+1 securities settlement.  The plan includes a Code of Conduct for market participants, which confirms 11 October 2027 will be the first trading date in UK cash equities for settlement on a T+1 cycle – in line with the European Union and Switzerland. Within the blueprint is a clearly defined scope, 12 critical operational actions and 26 highly recommended actions.

Contact details

Socials & Sites

Try JournoFinder For Free

Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.

Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →

X (formerly Twitter)

Followers
397
Tweets
4K
DMs Open
Yes
Jon Watkins
Jon Watkins @JonWatkinsAt7
18 May 25

I absolutely love these interactions between MA and the players’ partners. But someone must be able to dub some David Brent over them. 🙏

𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅-𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼
𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅-𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 @alexvideo_

Things we like to see ❤ https://t.co/XwQoP2wo7d

Jon Watkins
Jon Watkins @JonWatkinsAt7
11 May 25

RT @northbanksyafc: This is a prime example previously sensible pundits being told by TV bosses to talk in controversial oven-ready Twitter…

Jon Watkins
Jon Watkins @JonWatkinsAt7
5 May 25

“Mark Williams is the oldest World Snooker finalist at age 50”. Then how fucking old did Ray Reardon look?