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Brexit update: BoE keeps interest rates the same
14 July 2016 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Bank of England has declined to raise interest rates in the face of increasing economic uncertainty following the UK’s decision to leave the EU, but warned that volatility in property prices might require action in the future...

BoE extends emergency repo service
30 June 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has pledged to continue the central bank’s additional weekly indexed long-term repo operations until the end of September in the wake of severe market turmoil caused by Brexit...

Committee on financial policy backs BOE repo pledge
01 April 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The BOE's committee on financial policy has endorsed the central bank’s decision to offer three additional indexed long-term repo operations while continuing to offer dollar liquidity in the weeks around the UK’s 23 June EU referendum...

BoE to offer extra repo operations near EU referendum
09 March 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Bank of England will offer three additional indexed long-term repo (ILTR) operations in the weeks around the EU referendum, in a bid to quell uncertainty in the markets...

Trafigura ups Nyrstar stake ahead of looming refinancing
16 September 2015 London
Reporter: Dealreporter

Dealreporter’s Adnan Siddique, CFA, discusses the latest European pre-event ideas: beleaguered miner Nyrstar, activist targets Fenner and bookie William Hill

ABN AMRO Clearing joins BM&F/Bovespa
09 June 2015 Amsterdam
Reporter: Stephen Durham

ABN AMRO Clearing has been admitted as a carrying broker and clearing member of the derivatives segment on the Brazilian exchange BM&F/Bovespa, clearing its first transaction earlier in 2015...

FIA elects new chairman and board members
21 July 2014 Washington DC
Reporter: Tammy Facey

The Futures Industry Association’s (FIA) board of directors has elected Gerald Corcoran as chairman and Jan Bart de Boer and Raymond Kahn as board members...

BoE to make borrowing easier for banks
17 January 2014 London
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

The Bank of England has launched new indexed long-term repo operations (ILTR), which it believes will help to provide liquidity insurance to the banking system...

SEC fines CBOE for short selling failures
13 June 2013 Washington DC
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Chicago Board Options Exchange will pay a $6 million penalty and implement major remedial measures for “[failing] to enforce or even fully comprehend rules to prevent abusive short selling”...

BoE: synthetic ETFs are “opaque”
19 July 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

On top of synthetic ETFs, collateral swaps, structured notes and bilateral term repos are also deemed to be opaque...

BofE warns insurers on shadow banking
19 March 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Creating a trade repository for recording transactions would ensure insurers do not act like shadow banks, said BofE’s Paul Tucker...

Eurex Repo and Clearstream to launch additional GC Pooling segment for corporate firms
13 March 2012 Frankfurt
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Eurex Repo, Eurex Clearing and Clearstream will introduce an extension of the integrated and innovative GC Pooling market for secured funding...