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      Americans vote on November 3 for all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate. The presidency is not on the ballot, which means any new Congress will still need the President's signature to turn bills into law. Markets care about the midterms less for the laws that follow and more for what changes in oversight, budgets and the regulatory mood of Washington.

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      US post-trade market infrastructure provider DTCC has launched its DTCC Tokenization Service (DTS) through its subsidiary The Depository Trust Company.

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