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SEC’s Nash must dash
21 January 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) associate director of the division of investment management, Susan Nash, will leave the agency after 26 years of service at the end of January...

Northern Trust’s sec lending ends 2015 on a high
21 January 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Northern Trust’s securities lending revenue showed strong growth in Q4 2015, with revenue growing 13 percent on over the previous quarter...

HazelTree partners with MarginSphere for collateral
20 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

HazelTree has partnered with AcadiaSoft to enhance the collateral management capabilities of the HazelTree Integrated Treasury Management Solution...

Brazil CCP manages to get less for more
19 January 2016 São Paulo
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Brazilian central counterparty BM&FBovespa managed to complete more securities lending trades last year than in 2014 but suffered a drop-off in total revenue year-to-year.

BlackRock enjoys Q4 sec lending boost
18 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BlackRock’s securities lending revenue grew by $20 million in Q4 2015...

SEC’s proposed liquidity rules are not good enough
15 January 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed liquidity management rules for mutual funds and exchange-traded funds risk impeding understanding of fund liquidity and undermining effective liquidity management practices, according to the Securit

Goldman Sachs fined for improper sec lending practices
15 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $15 million to settle charges of improper securities lending practices that violated federal regulations...

Overnight repo still shines
14 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

More than half of repo trades collateralised with US treasuries are overnight or open trades, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s survey...

Clearstream sees December GSF dip
13 January 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Clearstream’s global securities financing services scored a monthly average outstanding of €542.1 billion in December 2015, but the figure was down on the previous year...

HCMC rejects ESMA’s rejection
12 January 2016 Athens
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Greece’s Hellenic Capital Market Commission has disregarded the European Securities and Markets Authority’s disapproval of its renewal of the short selling ban...

Bobby Colon bows out of securities lending
12 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The head of US securities lending at RBC Capital Markets, Bobby Colon, has retired...

SFTR goes live today
12 January 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

New European regulations demanding greater transparency and more comprehensive reporting requirements for securities financing transactions will come into effect today...