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Coronavirus leads to another short selling ban
04 March 2020 Asia
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Asian markets suffer large declines due to coronavirus, leading another exchange to ban short selling.

AFME publishes CSDR recommendations
04 March 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

AFME’s recommendations aim to encourage greater and more harmonised use of partial settlement across the industry as a way of improving settlement rates

LSEG report record highs for RepoClear
04 March 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

LSEG report record volume for all LCH OTC clearing services, SwapClear, CDSClear, ForexClear and RepoClear

OCC securities lending average daily loan jumps by 15 percent
03 March 2020 Chicago
Reporter: Natalie Turner

OCC clears highest volume month ever but sees securities lending activity decline, while average daily loan value increases in comparison to the previous year

Women in Securities Finance to celebrate European chapter launch
03 March 2020 UK
Reporter: Justin Lawson

The group’s London chapter’s official launch party this month will include keynote speakers from the Bank of England and elsewhere

Bank of Japan shines new light on securities financing markets
03 March 2020 Japan
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Bank of Japan has undertaken new initiatives to increase securities financing market transparency

Eurex enables global ESG investing
03 March 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Eurex broadens its ESG segment to markets beyond Europe with new MSCI index-based derivatives

Turkey halts short selling
02 March 2020 Turkey
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Turkish regulators have banned investors from short selling stocks on the Istanbul Stock Exchange

ISLA updates SFTR report modeller
02 March 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The new report modeller includes repo fields required to support structured finance trades, and therefore now supports all reportable products under ISLA’s governance

Northern Trust UK pension AUC flourishes
02 March 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Northern Trust is growing its UK pension fund assets under custody

Tony Freeman departs DTCC
28 February 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Tony Freeman has left the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation where he served as executive director of government relations, based in London

Julius Baer taps new recruit from SIX for interim collateral lead
27 February 2020 Zurich
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Swiss Bank has taken steps to maintain continuity in its collateral business by naming an interim manager of its collateral business following the resignation of Jong Frochaux