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Fed rate hike on route despite Trump, says SIFMA
13 December 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

A long-awaited US interest rate hike is highly likely to come from this week’s Federal Reserve meeting, according to a Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association roundtable..

Haas moves to BNY Mellon
12 December 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Mark Haas has accepted a role at BNY Mellon as managing director and head of principle securities financing...

FIS: Tech, entertainment and energy take top spots
09 November 2016 London
Reporter: Katherine Brown

Technology, entertainment and energy companies earned the most short interest for the week beginning 28 November, according to the FIS Astec Analytics hot stocks list...

SIFMA calls for regulatory impact assessment
09 December 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SIFMA's managing director has urged the US House of Representatives to assess the cumulative impact of regulation on short-term financing, identifying “potential, but not exhaustive, areas of concern”...

IHS Markit releases SFTR solution
09 December 2016 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

IHS Markit has officially entered the Securities Finance Transaction Regulation fray, with a solution aimed at alleviating the reporting requirements...

Cash collateral opened to central banks
08 December 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Eurosystem central banks will now be able to accept cash collateral in their public sector purchase programme’s securities lending facilities, without having to reinvest it in a ‘cash-neutral manner’...

ECB to extend APP to December 2017
08 December 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The European Central Bank will continue with a reduced version of it asset purchase programme until December 2017, after the original March 2017 cut-off...

PDQ secures Cestaro and Lazar for senior roles
08 December 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Former Quadriserv CEO and chair Pasquale Cestaro has been snapped up by PDQ to lead sales and business development for its CODA market platform...

ING launch synthetics PB platform for buy side
08 December 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ING Capital Markets has launched a synthetic prime brokerage platform to address hedge funds’ demand for cross-asset portfolio swap products...

Cowen goes-live with PB platform
07 December 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Cowen Group has onboarded the first customers to its newly-launched international prime brokerage business following an extensive acquisition and hiring campaign...

US broker fined for pre-IPO swaps negligence
07 December 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has fined an online broker for failing to register security-based swaps that were sold to shareholders in pre-initial public offering companies...

Asian exchanges bolster lendable securities lists
06 December 2016 Shanghai
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Shanghai Stock Exchange, in concert with the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, has significantly increased the number of underlying stocks available for securities lending, while also loosening the reins on margin trading rules...