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BNY Mellon has become the first agent lender to centrally clear a securities lending transaction on behalf of a buy-side client through Eurex Clearing’s Lending CCP platform

Brett Paschke, head of equity capital markets at investment bank, William Blair, has testified on behalf of the USA’s Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has partnered with IBM to develop a “watershed moment” in the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) for derivatives post-trade processing...

A Scottish short seller is facing charges of profiting from stock manipulation by using social media to spread false information on two companies...

The risk of instability in Greece is limited for the hedge funds on the Lyxor platform as few of them hold direct net exposures to Greek assets...

Citi has hired Philip Forkan as the EMEA head of business development for OpenCollateral, Citi's collateral management platform...

The IMN Beneficial Owners’ International Securities Lending Conference had to compete with Mardi Gras and the run-up to the Super Bowl for its attendees’ attention...

MF Global tops the list of shorted stocks in a look back at a year of market turmoil and underperformance...

Securities lending specialists reflect on the drivers of performance in the Canadian market over the past 12 months, key changes in technology and market practice and how the future looks for the rest of 2023 and beyond

Securities Lending Times speaks with women advocates driving forward the message of gender diversity and inclusion and looks at the progress made, challenges faced, and what is left to be achieved

With the ability to influence market volatility, short selling plays an important role in the finance industry, and while some areas are banning aspects of short selling, others are only just introducing it

Securities lending associations around the world discuss the key issues in 2017 and what they will focus on over the next 12 months

David Lewis, FIS’ senior director, securities finance and global head of Astec Analytics, reflects on regulators’ guidance for short sellers and efforts to ensure a fair and transparent marketplace

The ultra-high growth ESG sector claims to have laudable aims of offering investors a way to support the transition to a more sustainable world, but is market enthusiasm creating a breeding ground for fraud? Short sellers think so

The US Treasury’s revived hedge fund working group will continue where it left off, says Jonah Crane, who led the group in 2016, after the pandemic focused minds from both sides of the political aisle on market stressors

An SEC investigation, hearings in Congress, murmurs of new regulations and Wall Street rattled; not bad for a Roaring Kitty

Alexander Westphal, ICMA director, market practice and regulatory policy, speaks to Bob Currie about repo market performance, concerns over collateral shortages and the European Repo and Collateral Council’s working agenda for 2022

Sean Capstick, head of prime brokerage for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Cantor Fitzgerald, speaks about the financial services provider’s growth in Europe, market trends and the role of technology in today’s market

Luxembourg is a household name in securities lending due to hosting a substantial portion of asset-rich UCITS funds. Jenna Lomax assesses how Luxembourg’s recent market developments could be a major windfall