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BNY Mellon's Jeannine Lehman to retire
21 July 2016 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Jeannine Lehman is retiring from BNY Mellon at the end of the summer, the bank has confirmed...

Northern Trust settles and enjoys higher spreads
21 July 2016 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Northern Trust will have to pay $46.5 million to settle securities lending litigation, while the bank outperformed the previous quarter in fees earned, according to its Q2 results...

Funston: securities lending deserves own contract
21 July 2016 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Rising costs and a greater diversity of providers is leading pension funds to request unbundled contracts for securities lending and custody, according to Funston Advisory Services...

CBRT commits to ‘limitless’ QE to maintain stability
20 July 2016 Ankara
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Central Bank of Turkey has pledged to provide the country’s banks with limitless liquidity to ensure financial stability in the wake of recent economic and political turmoil...

EXCLUSIVE: CloudMargin taps Hadingham for North America push
19 July 2016 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Lisbeth Hadingham has joined CloudMargin as head of sales for North America...

BCBS address NSFR questions
18 July 2016 Basel
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Collateral must be considered encumbered for the term of the transaction, regardless of maturity date, when calculating the net stable funding ratio, according to Basel Committee on Banking Supervision...

Bears sightings increase in London real estate
15 July 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Short sellers are moving into the UK real estate sector in greater numbers as investor sentiment sours after the referendum, according to Markit...

Linear taps RSRCHXchange for compliant research
15 July 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Linear Investments has partnered with RSRCHXchange to offer its hedge fund clients to access to research in a manner compliant with MiFID II...

South Africa makes the leap to T+3
13 July 2016 Johannesburg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

South Africa’s capital market has initiated its long-anticipated settlement reform by shortening its standard cycle to T+3 from T+5, this week...

Citigroup admits to 15-year blue sheet violation
13 July 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Citigroup Global Markets has admitted wrongdoing and agreed to a $7 million penalty to settle charges that it provided incomplete blue sheet information to the US Securities and Exchange Commission over a 15-year period...

ESMA offers two-year extension for OTC clearing rule
13 July 2016 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

EMIR's requirement for central clearing of OTC derivatives may be pushed back by two-years for small counterparties...

ETFs offering tasty sec lending returns
12 July 2016 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

European and Asian exchange-traded funds are currently offering particularly attractive lending returns in their equity securities lending rates, according to Clearstream chair Jeffrey Tessler...