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SunGard’s hottest stocks
11 September 2015 Pennsylvania
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Ambarella, Toshiba and Tesco are among the top stock picks from SunGard’s Astec Analytics this week...

Demand drops for Clearstream’s sec finance services
10 September 2015 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Post-trade services provider Clearstream experienced a 3 percent drop off for global securities financing services last month, falling to €613 billion, according to its August figures...

NSD launches settlement risk mitigation technology
10 September 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Russia’s central securities depository, the National Settlement Depository (NSD), has implemented back-to-back settlements technology for off-exchange delivery-versus-payment transactions...

Northern Trust grows to meet sec lending demand
10 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Northern Trust has responded to increasing demand for its securities lending and transition management services by creating several new senior positions in its global capital markets team...

Global borrow demand boosted by $10bn
09 September 2015 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Global borrow balances grew by more than $10 billion in the first week of September with some industries reporting more than $1 billion of stock value fluctuations, according to S3 Blacklight...

Deutsche Bank exit prompts unit merger
09 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Deutsche Bank has merged its listed derivatives and markets clearing department into its prime services unit, which manages the bank’s securities lending services for borrowers...

Short sellers target Chinese automobile industry
09 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

China’s ongoing financial woes have led short sellers to target struggling Chinese automobile stocks, according to Markit..

Associations offer mixed review of FSB data proposals
08 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Industry associations have expressed a preference for the use of position level data to make securities lending more transparent, in a response letter to the Financial Stability Board’s data experts group meeting...

Wood takes the helm of BCS’s PB sales team
08 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BCS Global Markets has chosen Adam Wood to become the new director of its prime brokerage sale team in London...

Simmons & Simmons expands London presence
08 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has appointed Khasruz Zaman as a partner in its corporate and commercial practice...

HTC loses Asian exchange top-spot
07 September 2015 Taiwan
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The continued free-fall of smartphone maker HTC’s stock value has resulted in it being dropped from Taiwan Stock Exchange’s 50 largest listed firms index...

BSE adds rollover option for sec lending contracts
07 September New Delhi
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has launched a rollover facility for its securities exchange service in an attempt to boost interest in the securities lending market...