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Securities lending revenue starts strong, says IHS Markit
19 February 2020 Boston
Reporter: Natalie Turner

IHS Markit’s securities lending market data shows a strong start to the year as equities with pre-IPO lockups and related to the cannabis sector driving revenue

Northern Trust to offer outsourced trading services to Illinois pension fund
19 February 2020 Chicago
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Northern Trust is expanding its asset servicing mandate with the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund to add its Integrated Trading Solutions platform

EXCLUSIVE: Gilly Meth to leave Morgan Stanley
19 February 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Meth is understood to be leaving the bank after more than 30 years where she serves as global head of relationship management and exclusive portfolio pricing

Euroclear sees revenues and collateral surge
18 February 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Last year’s revenue was up by 8 percent compared to 2018 while Euroclear’s collateral highway also recorded growth

Wematch hosts first-of-its-kind electronic EUREX/LCH basis swap trade
18 February 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Societe Generale and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg have completed the industry’s first fully electronic EUREX/LCH basis swap on the Wematch platform

Pirum appoints new senior product manager
17 February 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Pirum expands product strategy team in response to recent growth

Women in Securities Finance group unveils ambitions for new philanthropic programme
17 February 2020 Florida
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Women in Securities Finance industry group continues to expand globally and has set its sights on starting a philanthropic programme this year

Clearstream starts 2020 strong with volumes boost
17 February 2020 Luxembourg
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Clearstream, a subsidiary of Deutsche Boerse offering post-trade services, has recorded a bumper January for global securities financing volumes through its platform

Curvature Securities continues equity finance build-out
14 February 2020 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

US broker-dealer Curvature Securities is still adding to its equities financing team, which was first formed in April 2019

Deutsche Bank’s Steven Hondelink joins ISSA board
14 February 2020 Zurich
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Steven Hondelink has joined the International Securities Services Association board representing Deutsche Bank

ESG heralds a new age of principles over tradition
14 February 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

As ESG gains prominence in securities finance markets, the industry must grapple with how to overlay a new principles-based ethos over its traditional rules-based framework, says ISLA

EquiLend reveals five new counterparties for NGT securities finance platform
13 February 2020 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

EquiLend has brought on five new counterparties to its NGT securities finance trading platform, bringing the total number of active user firms to more than 100