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SunGard's hottest stocks
02 July 2015 Global
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SunGard’s Astec Analytics has compiled the hottest stocks from around the globe for the week beginning 22 June 2015...

Greece adds short selling ban to the mix
01 July 2015 Athens
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

A complete ban of short selling was enforced across Greece on 30 June as the country attempts to prevent its economy from collapsing...

Wells Fargo confirms Sackett hire
01 July 2015 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Wells Fargo Securities has confirmed that Robert Sackett has joined its prime services division as managing director and head of securities lending...

OCC cleared contracts down from 2014
01 July 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Stephen Durham

OCC’s cleared contract volume in May reached 308.6 million contracts, a 3 percent decrease from the May 2014 volume of 319.7 million contracts...

Greek regulator fines funds over naked short selling
29 June 2015 Athens
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Greece’s securities regulator has fined dozens of funds for naked short selling...

GCF repo settlement reform to extend into 2016
29 June 2015 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The last leg of the Tri-party Repo Infrastructure Reform Task Force’s seven-point roadmap for reform, the full alignment of GCF repo settlement with the new triparty settlement process, still needs to be completed, according to the Federal Reserve

Russian and Chinese CSDs team up
26 June 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NSD) and China Central Depository and Clearing (CCDC), which services governmental securities, have agreed to work together to boost participation in both markets...

ISLA: regulatory concerns
24 June 2015 Lisbon
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association Resolution Stay Protocol is a major concern for the securities financing industry, according to a panel at the annual International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) conference in Lisbon...

Clearstream’s global securities financing average climbs
23 June 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Clearstream enjoyed a monthly average outstanding of €622.5 billion for global securities financing in May...

BM&FBovespa records fewer deals in May
23 June 2015 São Paulo
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BM&FBovespa, Brazil’s central counterparty (CCP), recorded fewer securities lending transactions in May than it did the month before...

Smooth start for T2S
22 June 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The TARGET2-Securities (T2S) platform has launched successfully today, as planned...

Murex overhauls MX.3 for Collateral Management
22 June 2015 Paris
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Murex has released a fully overhauled version of MX.3 for Collateral Management, designed to better support sell-side and buy-side financial institutions in optimising pre- and post-trade collateral...