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Exclusive: 4sight recruits Cooper as sales team director
15 December 2015 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Jonathan Cooper is set to become director of 4sight’s New York sales team...

Hutchinson and Colvill launch sec finance consultancy
14 December 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Peter Hutchinson, previously of Aviva Investors, has teamed up with Richard Colvill, previously of MX Consulting Services, to become a founding partner of a new securities finance consultancy...

Clearstream GSF stutters in November
14 December 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Clearstream’s global securities financing data showed a 14 percent drop off in November compared to the same time last year...

SEC proposes asset segregation rule
14 December 2014 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a new rule that will require funds to segregate certain assets for repo and short selling transactions...

SEC approves SS&C cloud-based trade network
11 December 2015 Connecticut
Reporter: Drew Nicol

SS&C Technologies Holdings has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to bring a post-trade matching service to the US market...

Barbie has the wind taken out its sales
11 November 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Barbie, the iconic children’s toy, has not aged well in recent years and its producer, Mattel, is now the target of short sellers during the festive period, according to Markit...

Evergreen Securities to use IPO to expand sec lending
10 December 2015 Shanghai
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Everbright Securities has valued its Hong Kong initial public offering at $2.5 billion...

A long road of reform ahead for US triparty
10 December 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

US triparty reform is just the first step in the evolution of wholesale funding markets, according to new joint BNY Mellon and PwC report...

Wagner joins ANF Capital board
09 December 2015 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ANF Capital has welcomed Gregory Wagner as a strategic advisor...

Greece shorting ban holds firm
08 December 2015 Athens
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Greece’s Hellenic Capital Market Commission has extended the ban on short selling on the Athens Exchange due to ongoing market volatility...

Hobbs takes on EMEA sec financing at Jefferies
08 December 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Derryn Hobbs has joined Jefferies as head of securities finance in Europe, the Middle East and Africa....

Markit makes its ETF mark with big market players
07 December 2015 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BlackRock, BNY Mellon and State Street have approved Markit’s exchange-traded fund collateral lists for use in their collateral management schedules...