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Trump puts Dodd-Frank on the firing line
06 February 2017 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

President Trump has paved the way for sweeping a regulatory overhaul by signing an executive order giving the the Treasury broad powers to scrap rules that do not comply with the administration’s ‘core principles’...

IMN: Indemnification key to lenders’ programmes
02 February 2017 Florida
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Cuts to indemnification would force beneficial owners to shut down their securities lending programmes, according to an asset manager speaking at the IMN conference

OneChicago starts 2017 with strong volume
02 February 2017 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

OneChicago’s volume for the first month of 2017 fell 9 percent year over year, although it reached 1.3 million transactions in December

OCC hits the ground running in 2017
02 February 2017 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

OCC members began 2016 with a bang, completing 180,624 transactions last month

IMN: Eat, sleep, balance, repeat
01 February 2017 Florida
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The emergence of central bank reverse repo programmes is an admission that balance sheet regulations have gone too far, according to the keynote speaker at IMN's conference

Fieldfisher targets securities finance docs with Condor
01 February 2017 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Law firm Fieldfisher has launched a new alternative legal services platform focusing on derivatives and securities financing documentation

IMN: US regulation here to stay
01 February 2017 Florida
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The securities lending industry shouldn’t expect the newly-installed Trump administration to take the axe to banking regulation any time soon, attendees of IMN's conference heard

EquiLend secures Pearce for sales
31 January 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

EquiLend has hired Ann-Marie Pearce as associate director of sales in North America...

Securities lending can help markets to emerge, says roundtable
31 January 2017 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

A securities lending function is an important enabler for boosting liquidity in emerging exchanges, heard participants of a recent World Federal of Exchange (WFE) roundtable in London...

Levin moves to Cowen to build securities finance
31 January 2017 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Ross Levin has joined Cowen Group to build a brand new securities finance and equity trading and clearing business...

First Irish UCITS funds win stock connect approval
30 January 2017 Dublin
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Value Partners Ireland, an Irish UCITS funds umbrella, has become the first to be approved by the Central Bank of Ireland to start investing in China A-shares through the new Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect...

FSB targets collateral rehypothecation and reuse
30 January 2017 Basel
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

There is no immediate need to harmonise regulatory approaches toward collateral rehypothecation, but reuse needs to be monitored on a global level, according to two new reports from the Financial Stability Board...