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Securities lending risks increase in “flight to safety” environment
05 August 2011 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Risk managers are warning of the impacts on the repo market of weakening sovereign prices in certain European countries...

J.P. Morgan adds hires in Asia Pacific
04 August 2011 Sydney
Reporter: Anna Reitman

J.P. Morgan has announced new appointments to its financing and market products (FMP) group in Asia Pacific...

Markets stabilise on US debt deal hopes, downgrade still haunts
01 August 2011 New York
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Shares rallied on Monday after President Obama announced a deal on raising the US debt ceiling, still to be passed by the Senate...

BNP Paribas CIB unveils global prime brokerage platform
27 July 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking has unveiled its global prime brokerage platform, which provides clients with a global approach to financing, execution and servicing...

BNY Mellon sells ConvergEx stake
21 July 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

BNY Mellon has agreed to sell a majority of its equity stake in ConvergEx Group...

Data Explorers: Short sellers in position for IT earnings
18 July 2011 London
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

Data Explorers have taken a look at the flow data to assess sentiment towards the Information Technology ahead of upcoming earnings reports.

SunGard expands Valdi to include BondMatch
12 July 2011 Paris
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

SunGard has extended its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based market connectivity to NYSE BondMatch, the European Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) launched by NYSE Euronext for professional investors to trade corporate, financial and covered bonds..

Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext to formalise tie-up
01 July 2011 Frankfurt
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext have formally notified their planned business combination to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition...

Canadian Securities Lending Association's president joins BNY Mellon
23 June 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

BNY Mellon names David DiNardo chief operating officer of securities lending and Robert Chiuch to lead U.S. equity and corporate securities team...........

Clearstream names new manager for Tokyo office
20 June 2011 Tokyo
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Clearstream have appointed a new Head of the Representative Office Japan. As of 1 July 2011, Takashi Kimori will succeed Kyoichi Murakawa as Chief Representative of the Clearstream office in Tokyo.....

AQS Securities Lending Market gets more Loanet
14 June 2011 Salem
Reporter: Justin Lawson

SunGard has expanded its Loanet securities finance solution to automate borrow order submissions to Quadriserv’s AQS securities lending platform........

State Street appointed global securities lending agent for REST
10 June 2011 Sydney
Reporter: Justin Lawson

State Street have been appointed global securities lending agent for REST Industry Super, a move which follows on from the superannuation servicing agreement announced in January.....