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Overstock, Buckle and Dignity feature in FIS hot stock lists
24 January 2018 London
Reporter: Zsuzsa Szabo

Overstock has regained prominence in the FIS Astec Analytics hot stocks list for the Americas, alongside Kodak and Buckle

BNP Paribas wins collateral access mandate from Aletti Gestielle SGR
23 January 2018 Milan
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

BNP Paribas Securities Services has won a collateral access mandate from Aletti Gestielle SGR, an asset management firm based in Milan

IHS Markit names Stuart Cornock as associate sales director
22 January 2018 London
Reporter: Zsuzsa Szabo

Cornock has moved from Clearstream to IHS Markit

New York Fed confirms repo rate compliance
22 January 2018 New York
Reporter: Zsuzsa Szabo

An audit of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York uncovered that the effective federal funds rate and overnight bank funding rate are in compliance with principles for financial benchmarks

Hong Kong securities and derivatives markets break records in 2017
19 January 2018 Hong Kong
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Market capitalisation of Hong Kong’s securities market reached over $33 billion, while in the derivatives market total options trading reached over 137 thousand contracts

ESMA updates MiFID II transparency calculations
19 January 2018 Paris
Reporter: Zsuzsa Szabo

ESMA has revised its transitional transparency calculations for equity and bond instruments reported under MiFID II

S&P reaffirms OCC’s AA+ rating
19 January 2018 Chicago
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

S&P has reaffirmed OCC’s financial strength rating of “AA+/stable”

Clearstream to include Kazakh government bonds
19 January 2018 Astana
Reporter: Zsuzsa Szabo

Kazakhstan treasury bonds are to be available through Clearstream

BNY Mellon sees marginal securities lending revenue rise
18 January 2018 New York
Reporter: Zsuzsa Szabo

BNY Mellon’s securities lending revenue hit $45 million in Q4 2017

Philippines central bank increases leverage ratio
18 January 2018 Manila
Reporter: Zsuzsa Szabo

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas monetary board has approved new rules on minimum leverage ratio requirement for universal banks, commercial banks and their subsidiary banks and quasi-banks, effective 1 July

Steffen Jordan leaves SEB
17 January 2018 Frankfurt
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Jordan was head of markets for Germany for two years and head of securities finance for 11 years

Switzerland reviews securities lending transactions rules
17 January 2018 Zurich
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Switzerland’s FTA has re-opened the rulebook on the country’s withholding tax