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The Debate: managing collateral
20 May 2015 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

DTCC, Torstone, SGSS and State Street give their take on regulatory requirements around OTC derivatives and their opinion on the best collateral management systems...

BlackRock sets the record straight
19 May 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Policy makers have misunderstood securities lending practices and associated risks, according to a whitepaper from BlackRock...

Euroclear: Collateral is a new currency
19 May 2015 Brussels
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Collateral mobility and the pricing of collateral assets are the biggest challenges for effectively managing collateral, according to a Euroclear survey..

DBV-X to go live in 2015
19 May 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

DBV-X, a new EU-regulated marketplace for collateral and secured deposits, is set to go live in Europe later this year...

SunGard's hottest stocks
14 May 2015 Global
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SunGard’s Astec Analytics has compiled the hottest stocks from around the globe, with UK oil companies profiting from the recent election...

Bumper April for Clearstream
13 May 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The monthly average outstanding for Clearstream’s Global Securities Financing (GSF) services reached €628.4 billion in April 2015...

Italy offers public sector securities lending
13 May 2015 Rome
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The Bank of Italy has made securities purchased under the Public Sector Purchase Programme available for lending, as of 11 May 2015, under the governance of Clearstream Banking...

BNY Mellon drastically reduces intraday credit
12 May 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

BNY Mellon has completed its tri-party repo risk reduction initiative in support of the recommendations of the task force for Tri-Party Repo Infrastructure Reform...

Exclusive: William Wong joins Mizuho
12 May 2015 Hong Kong
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Mizuho Securities Asia has hired William Wong to expand their securities lending and equity financing business in Asia...

AIFs at risk from asset segregation
11 May 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Asset segregation as proposed under AIFMD will compromise tri-party collateral management and securities lending, according to Ross Whitehill, managing director of BNY Mellon Markets Group...

GIC adopts Omego Alert
11 May 2015 Singapore
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Limited has adopted Omgeo Alert, the industry’s largest web-based global database for the maintenance and communication of account and SSIs...

OneChicago gives its two cents
07 May 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Stephen Durham

OneChicago has requested guidance from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and US Department of the Treasury concerning three issues related to section 1058 of the Internal Revenue Code...