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Jonathan Watkins

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Editor, Seven Publishing Group and Freelance Writer at Freelance

Group Editor at 7C3

Arsenal. Content. Digital. Couch-based gambling.

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  • 1 month ago | 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.

  • 1 month ago | 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.

  • 1 month ago | 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.

  • 2 months ago | 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.

  • 2 months ago | thetradenews.com | Jonathan Watkins |Claudia Preece

    The UK’s Accelerated Settlement Taskforce (AST) is recommending that the UK moves to the T+1 settlement cycle for securities on 11 October 2027 in line with its European counterparts. Despite the UK being the first to tout the date for transition, the EU and Switzerland both confirmed the date in recent months, with the UK – as expected – now mirroring the day which the shortened settlement cycle will come into force.

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Jon Watkins
Jon Watkins @JonWatkinsAt7
16 Apr 25

RT @BeingBoycie: Up the Arsenal! A small cognac to celebrate. https://t.co/1upbnUgRy5

Jon Watkins
Jon Watkins @JonWatkinsAt7
5 Apr 25

Did Arteta overplay him? Ffs.

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Chelsea's Wesley Fofana has been ruled out for the rest of the season after having surgery on a hamstring injury. https://t.co/F8nczkKCmb

Jon Watkins
Jon Watkins @JonWatkinsAt7
10 Mar 25

Oh. Roy Keane said something sensationalist about a rival team at Man U when Man U sit 14th and played anti-football at home? Sky coverage has gone so stale. They’ve exhausted the Keane, Neville, Carragher controversial-take narrative. Time to move it on for some proper analysis