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OCC enjoys bumper increase in new loans
02 June 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Securities lending activity at the Options Clearing Corporation was up 52 percent in new loans last month...

Doran Jones appoints Susan Peters as CEO
01 June 2016 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

IT consultancy Doran Jones has appointed former eSecLending executive Susan Peters as its new CEO...

Dyson to take on ISLA top job
27 May 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Andrew Dyson has been confirmed as the new CEO of ISLA, following the decision of current incumbent Kevin McNulty to step down after seven years in the post...

FIS hot stocks: 16 May
26 May 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Energy producers and their service providers, along with representatives of the fast food sector, took the brunt of short sales last week, according to the FIS Astec Analytics hot stocks list...

Russia's NSD endures sharp repo drop off
27 May 2016 Moscow
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Russia’s National Settlement Depository suffered a decline in its monthly repo transactions with the Bank of Russia in May...

Exclusive: Challice heads to Pirum
26 May 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Pirum Systems is set to take on Ben Challice as chief operating officer, giving him responsibility for the company’s strategic product and market development...

Orange County seeks sec lending provider
25 May 2016 California
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Orange County Employees Retirement System (OCERS) is assessing bids from global custodians to take over the management of its securities lending programme...

LCH and SIX to clear through SIGMA X MTF
24 May 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Clearinghouses LCH and SIX x-clear will both be offering clearing services on the Goldman Sachs SIGMA X MTF platform from July...

RISE launches ‘first’ blockchain 2.0 solution
23 May 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

RISE Financial Technologies claims to have pulled ahead of the pack in the emerging technology arms race with the creation of the next generation of blockchain for the post-trade sector...

Euroclear and Lyxor launch liquidity tool
23 May 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Euroclear and Lyxor Asset Management have teamed up for the launch of an asset liquidity monitoring tool for the fixed income market...

Papenfuß re-elected as chairman of ECSDA
20 May 2016 Warsaw
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Members of the European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA) have re-elected Mathias Papenfuß of Clearstream as chairman...

OCC at risk of losing AA+ S&P rating
20 April 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Options Clearing Corporation has staunchly defended its financial safeguards following Standard & Poor’s decision to put the central counterparty’s credit rating on CreditWatch with a negative designation...