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Short sellers increase interest in Russia
11 August 2014 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Short interest in Russia is climbing in the wake of tough sanctions from the west, according to Markit Securities Finance analyst Andrew Laird...

SunGard sees US equity balance boom
08 August 2014 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Balances on loan for US equities have risen 70 percent since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, according to an analyst at SunGard’s Astec Analytics...

Painful July for hedge funds
08 August 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

July was a volatile month for hedge fund performance with an aggregate performance of -0.35 percent for the month...

Irish central bank has UCITS worries
07 August 2014 Dublin
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Central Bank of Ireland has claimed that there are strong grounds for limiting the collateral diversification relaxation set out in the revised version of the ESMA Guidelines on exchange-traded funds and other UCITS issues...

Clearstream responds to securities questionnaire
06 August 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The 2014 version of Clearstream Banking Luxembourg (CBL)’s BIS-IOSCO disclosure framework for securities settlement services (SSS) has been published...

IOSCO launches public information repository
06 August 2014 Madrid
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) is to open an information repository for central clearing requirements for OTC derivatives to the public...

New board member at Eurex Clearing
05 August 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Tammy Facey

Eurex Clearing AG supervisory board has appointed Matthias Graulich as member of its executive board...

Deutsche Bank's July trends
05 August 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Convertible bond issuance and M&A volume picked substantially in July, according to recent research from Deutsche Bank...

The only way is up for Eurex Repo
04 August 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Eurex Repo has reported a strong July 2014 for the Swiss Franc Repo, Euro Repo and GC Pooling markets.

Ten percent increase for OCC for July 2014
04 August 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

OCC has announced a 10 percent increase in cleared contract volume for the month of July 2014 compared to July 2013, despite securities lending activity being down 14 percent in new loans...

UK bans Banco Espírito Santo short selling
01 August 2014 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has again banned short selling in Banco Espírito Santo shares...

Business in China is booming, finds KPMG
31 July 2014 Beijing
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The combined margin financing and securities lending activity among 115 Chinese securities brokers increased a staggering 341.71 percent between the end of 2012 and the end of March this year, according to KPMG...