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Goldman Sachs funds begin lending
27 January 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Three of Goldman Sachs’s emerging market equity funds are now able to lend up to a third of their total assets...

GFF: Bridge over troubled liquidity
26 January 2017 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The merger of Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange will create a vital liquidity bridge between the EU and UK financial markets, post-Brexit, attendees of the Global Funding and Financing Summit heard earlier today...

Malaysian prime broker picks Protrader
26 January 2017 Kuala Lumpur
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Prime broker Maybank Kim Eng Securities has signed up with multi-asset brokerage and trading provider PFSOFT to give its prime services clients access to global equity and derivatives markets using Protrader...

GFF: Pension funds left high and dry
25 January 2017 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Month-end liquidity pools are drying up and pensions funds are most at risk, according to a panellist speaking in Luxembourg...

Pirum links up with ColleX
25 January 2017 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Pirum Systems has linked its real-time straight-through processing services for the securities finance industry to ColleX, a platform for collateral trading...

NSD to launch OTC repo collateral service
24 January 2017 Moscow
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Russia’s National Settlement Depository, in partnership with Bloomberg, is preparing to launch a new collateral management service for over-the-counter repo transactions in March...

SDR takes dim view of sec lending
24 January 2017 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Asset managers must provide annual reports on their securities lending policy under the proposed Shareholder Rights Directive because it “can cause controversy in the area of shareholder engagement”...

BNY Mellon ends 2016 on a high
23 January 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BNY Mellon posted its strongest securities lending revenue of the year in Q4 2016...

Grady takes the helm at ADISA
23 January 2017 Indianapolis
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The board of the Alternative & Direct Investment Securities Association has named its officers for 2017, as John Grady begins his term as president of the board...

Pakistan review SBL lists
23 January 2017 Islamabad
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The National Clearing Company of Pakistan has revised its list of securities eligible for lending activities...

Northern Trust warns of repo timebomb
23 January 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The repo market could “shut down” under stress conditions with pension funds most at risk, according to a new Northern Trust whitepaper...

Broadridge welcomes Abric and Price
23 January 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Broadridge has expanded its securities finance team with the addition of Wells Fargo’s Peter Abric and FIS’s Thomas Price...