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CPMI and IOSCO start stress testing review
12 March 2015 Madrid
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the International Organization of Securities Commissions have begun a review of stress testing by CCPs...

OCC’s $33.3 million member refund approved
11 March 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved OCC’s new equity capital plan, which will result in a reduction in clearing fees and a $33.3 million refund for clearing members...

SunGard’s hottest stocks
11 March 2015 Global
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SunGard’s Astec Analytics has compiled the hottest stocks from around the globefor the week beginning 2 March 2015...

OCC confirms repurchase facility deal
11 March 2015 Boston
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) and eSecLending have collaborated with CalPERS to develop a product to help OCC diversify and increase its committed liquidity resources while offering a risk-adjusted return for CalPERS...

Northern Trust provides securities lending for PPF
10 March 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The Pension Protection Fund has appointed Northern Trust to provide securities lending and custody services for £20 billion in pension assets...

TTC first to use Prisma
10 March 2015 Boca Raton
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The Technancial Company (TTC) has become first to market with Eurex Clearing Prisma 2.05 real-time margin methodology on its JANUS platform...

Masse moves to Cantor Fitzgerald
06 March 2015 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Christopher Masse has joined up with Rory Zirpolo at Cantor Fitzgerald...

PASLA/RMA: just a matter of time
05 March 2015 Shanghai
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The securities lending industry is optimistic about doing business in the Asia Pacific, with 65 percent of the audience surveyed at the PASLA/RMA conference expecting to generate greater year-on-year revenue in the region...

PASLA/RMA: Stock Connect is a work in progress
04 March 2015 Shanghai
Reporter: Stephen Durham

A lack of activity in southbound trading on the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect is due to the absence of genuine demand, according to 64 percent of attendees at the PASLA/RMA Conference on Asian Securities Lending...

PASLA/RMA: foreign investors could flourish
04 March 2015 Shanghai
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Qualified foreign institutional investors and their renminbi counterparts could still enter China's margin financing and securities borrowing and lending markets, according to a panel at the PASLA/RMA Conference on Asian Securities Lending...

Wells Fargo add three directors
03 March 2015 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Wells Fargo Securities has added three directors to its prime services sales and capital introduction groups...

Stock-Connect gets short selling
03 March 2015 Hong Kong
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Short selling of certain Shanghai-listed A shares is now permitted through the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect programme...