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Slight securities lending CCP decrease at OCC
02 April 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

OCC's securities lending central counterparty activity was down 1 percent in new loans from March 2013 with 95,094 transactions last month...

Cost cutting drives down custody scores
01 April 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In a 2014 survey of global custodians, it was found that Pictet, RBC and BNP Paribas were highest ranked, but that overall, scores declined across the board...

Gar Wood chooses trio for prime brokerage
31 March 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Gar Wood Securities has hired industry veterans Darren Day, Christopher Calvert and Joseph McDonald in an effort to increase the firm's presence in the emerging manager space...

BNY Mellon fine-tunes collateral for ETFs
27 March 2014 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNY Mellon has automated the calculation of collateral requirements in the exchange-traded funds marketplace...

CACEIS designs new real-time portal
27 March 2014 Luxembourg
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

CACEIS has launched a new web portal, designed for mobile use, that will covering its entire service offering...

Lack of liquidity management could prove catastrophic
26 March 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SmartStream Technologies has written a paper to help banks identify the implications and solutions needed to meet the intraday liquidity regulatory monitors, scheduled for enforcement from January 2015...

Asia Pac hot stocks to watch
25 March 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Chinese sourcing giant Li & Fung plans to spin off its branding and licensing division after 2013 profits climbed 17 percent, thanks to a turnaround in its US business...

BNY Mellon and AP7 together again
25 March 2014 Sweden
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNY Mellon has been reappointed by Swedish state pension fund Sjunde AP-fonden (AP7) to provide global custody and collateral services to assets valued at $28.8 billion...

BNY Mellon catches Phoenix account
24 March 2014 Phoenix
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNY Mellon has been chosen by the City of Phoenix Employees' Retirement System (COPERS) to provide custody, accounting, and securities lending solutions to plan assets valued at $2 billion...

Compliance firm seeks Lombard assistance
24 March 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The firm Compliancy Services has selected Lombard Risk Management to provide their clients with regulatory returns submission services...

SL-x is FCA approved
24 March 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Financial Conduct Authority has approved SL-x’s application to commence operating as a multilateral trading facility...

Clearstream GSF grows 3 percent
21 March 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream’s February 2014 figures have shown assets under custody increasing, and continued growth across settlement and securities financing seemingly showing early customer support of the firm’s T2S strategy...