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European short selling bans and CCPs on BoE committee's agenda
28 November 2011 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Members of the Bank of England's Securities Lending and Repo Committee (SLRC) noted that European short selling bans were disruptive for the equity securities lending markets and considered inviting CCP providers to future meetings...

Data Explorers expands IQ
26 September 2011 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Data Explorers has announced that its securities lending data, tracking short selling and institutional fund activity, is available to its subscribers over Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's (S&P) business...

BoE warns on securities lending contagion risk
19 September 2011 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

The Bank of England (BoE) has issued a warning on the potential contagion risk associated with securities lending transactions in its latest quarterly bulletin...

FFastFill becomes ISV at OneChicago
17 August 2011 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

OneChicago (OCX) has announced that FFastFill is certified as an independent software vendor...

Financial Markets cannot function effectively without short selling
17 March 2011 Data Explorers
Reporter: Justin Lawson

At the recent Data Explorers London Securities Financing Forum Will Duff Gordon hosted a panel of three short selling academics, unfortunately a journalist rather critical of short selling could not make the panel. Each academic made their case for

Options Clearing Corporation rebrands
17 March 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Reflecting its more diverse suite of clearing solutions, The Options Clearing Corporation today has revised its brand identity and will now be known as OCC.

Gar Wood launches new CBOE Brokerage Services unit
14 March 2011 New York
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

Gar Wood Securities, LLC taps options industry veterans Mark Oakley, Jeffery Fried and Steven Hessing to manage Gar Wood’s new CBOE Brokerage Services unit.

Spectral gets Spalding
25 October 2010 Seattle
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Spectral Capital Corporation appoints Stephen Spalding as Chief Financial Officer and Director.

Subdued results from TradeStation
21 October 2010 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

TradeStation Group has reported 2010 third quarter net revenues of $29.6 million, net income of $3.1 million, and earnings per share of 8 cents...

OTC derivatives market reform
16 September 2010 Frankfurt
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Deutsche Boerse Group welcomes the intended regulation on OTC derivatives, central counterparties (CCPs), and trade repositories as presented on Wednesday by the European Commission.

OneChicago reports August rises
01 September 2010 Chicago
Reporter: Justin Lawson

OneChicago, LLC ("OCX") today reported that 407,036 security futures contracts traded at the Exchange in August 2010, an increase of 53% from August 2009. Year to date volume was 3,598,342, up 128% from 2009.

IPO activity to increase, says Deutsche Borse
17 August 2010 Frankfurt
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Deutsche Boerse has published the IPO indicator for the 3rd quarter of 2010...