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Manual entries are no more, say SunGard
05 February 2014 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SunGard’s Loanet, a suite of solutions for the US and Canadian securities finance industry, has created a new order management service that aims to help borrowers and lenders increase automation and boost productivity of their trading businesses...

State Street signs Lufthansa Airlines for another 5 years
05 February 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

State Street has extended its 13 year relationship with Lufthansa German Airlines Group (Deutsche Lufthansa AG) for an additional five years. The relationship will now include transition management, collateral management and FX spot execution service

Citi builds on emerging markets rep
04 February 2014 Moscow
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Citi has broken into the Russian market by launching lending services in Russian securities through its OpenLend platform...

OCC announces record January activity
04 February 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

OCC cleared contract volume reached 395,595,620 in January, an 8 percent increase from the January 2013 volume...

Exclusive: William Duff Gordon resigns from Markit
03 February 2014 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

William Duff Gordon, research director at Markit Securities Finance, has resigned from his position. Linda Benzi has also left the data analytics provider to join E*Trade, which has also recruited Anthony Barros...

Dubai lays down the law
31 January 2014 Dubai
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

Dubai Financial Market has issued securities lending and borrowing rules to enhance market infrastructure according to international best practices...

Clearstream and NSD strengthen Russian partnership
30 January 2014 Moscow
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Clearstream has opened up settlement to Russian corporate bonds via its direct link to the National Settlement Depository...

OneChicago to launch weekly futures
30 January 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

OneChicago is planning to release OCX.Weekly futures as part of the OCX.NoDivRisk futures product suite...

Hot stocks: what’s ready to pop?
30 January 2014 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

DataLend and SunGard’s Astec Analytics round up the shares that are in greatest demand, and what they are earning borrowers and lenders...

IMN Austin: unharmonious regulators
29 January 2014 Austin
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Regulators are considering a range of measures, with no clear consensus for global harmonisation of standards at present, said a panellist at the IMN conference...

OCC prepares S&P 500 launch
29 January 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

OCC has received regulatory approvals to clear over-the-counter equity index options...

Northern Trust sees sec lend revenue increase
29 January 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Securities lending revenue increased 7 percent at Northern Trust in Q4 2013, according to the bank’s latest financial report...