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Record-breaking 2015 for sec lending in Asia
29 January 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Asian securities lending industry raked in $672 million from lending out stocks in 2015, marking a bumper year for the region...

Securities finance revenue a hit for State Street
28 January 2016 Boston
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

State Street earned $127 million from securities finance during an otherwise difficult Q4 2015 for the bank...

Dublin is prime for Credit Suisse
27 January 2016 Dublin
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Credit Suisse has officially opened its new trading floor in Dublin, giving a new home to key parts of the bank’s prime services business, including securities lending, prime brokerage and prime financing...

Seyll takes over as head of GSF at Clearstream
27 January 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Clearstream’s current head of investment funds services, Philippe Seyll, has added oversight of the global securities financing business to his role at the post-trade services provider...

Euroclear’s Collateral Highway races ahead
27 January 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Euroclear’s Collateral Highway mobilised an average of €1.06 trillion in collateralised transactions daily in 2015, a 20 percent increase over the prior year...

SWIFT scores first cloud collateral management firm
26 January 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

SWIFT has signed up its first network cloud-based collateral management solution provider to its network...

Hilltop Holdings fuses broker-dealer services
26 January 2016 Dallas
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Hilltop Holdings has merged its broker-dealer subsidiaries First Southwest Company and Hilltop Securities...

BNY Mellon sec lending boasts Q4 growth
25 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BNY Mellon’s securities lending revenue jumped by 8 percent between Q3 and Q4 2015...

Hong Kong expands shorting list
22 January 2016 Hong Kong
Reporter: Drew Nicol

China Energy Engineering will be eligible for short selling on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange from 29 January...

FIS hot stocks: 11 Jan
22 January 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Tesla Motors, Siemens and Japan Hotel REIT Investment all took top spots in the FIS Astec Analytics hot stocks list for the week starting 11 January...

BNP Paribas to utilise €GCPlus
22 January 2016 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BNP Paribas Securities Services now offers clearing, settlement and custody services for clients trading euro cash liquidity through LCH. Clearnet’s €GCPlus product...

Traiana and Trax offer joint repo matching service
21 January 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Traiana and Trax have formed a business alliance to offer a repo matching service to support efficient, automated, operational processes ahead of significant regulatory change...