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Average outstanding volume down at Eurex Repo
03 June 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Eurex Repo recorded an average outstanding volume of €216.5 billion across the Swiss Franc, Euro Repo and GC Pooling markets in May, down from €228.5 billion in the same month in 2013...

Bradley Mirkin to Nixon Peabody
03 June 2014 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Nixon Peabody has expanded its government investigations and white-collar defence practice in New York City with the arrival of Bradley Mirkin, former senior litigation counsel at Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Enforcement...

BlackRock 'bites back at asset manager claims'
02 June 2014 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BlackRock has reportedly hit back at the Financial Stability Oversight Council for claiming that asset managers’ practice of providing indemnification to securities lenders creates potential for enhanced risks...

Wells Fargo to pay $62.5 million to end class action
30 May 2014 Minnesota
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Wells Fargo and a group of institutional investors have agreed to settle their class action litigation over the bank’s alleged misrepresentation of its securities lending programme...

Onwards and upwards for sec lending
29 May 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Securities lending deal activity picked up substantially during April, especially in the pharmaceuticals sector, according to research by Deutsche Bank...

Fed must watch Reverse Repo Facility closely
29 May 2014 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Reverse Repo Facility could encourage further development of the shadow banking system, according to president and CEO William Dudley...

Masse joins Cowen
29 May 2014 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Christopher Masse has been hired by Cowen Equity Finance Group...

UBS restricts ETF securities lending
28 May 2014 Zürich
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

UBS has limited the amount of securities that its equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can lend out...

Bond ETFs aren’t cheap to borrow, finds Markit
23 May 2014 London
Reporter: Tammy Facey

Bond exchange-traded funds are among the most expensive to borrow in the US ETF market, according to Markit Securities Finance...

SGX and Clearstream: the right collateral is priority
23 May 2014 Asia Pacific
Reporter: Tammy Facey

Sourcing the right collateral is an increasing priority for the financial industry in Asia, according to the results of a poll conducted at the 5th Global Securities Financing Conference Asia...

Regulatory uncertainty threatens systems
22 May 2014 Paris
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The unclear regulatory landscape is the biggest challenge cited by banks in implementing their counterparty risk and credit valuation adjustment (CVA) platforms, according to a whitepaper by InteDelta and Murex...

Faster settlement for international securities
20 May 2014 Brussels
Reporter: Stephen Durham

A number of operators of European securities markets have announced that they will implement the migration to T+1 from T+2 for repo transactions and to T+2 from T+3 for cash transactions...