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GSF: hair-cutting remarks
22 January 2014 Luxembourg
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Bilateral business is attracting repo participants because central counterparty (CCP) haircut policies are too onerous, said a panel of experts at the 18th Global Securities Finance Summit in Luxembourg...

GSF: Collateral likes to move it move it
22 January 2014 Luxembourg
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Collateral mobilisation is becoming increasingly important to the financial markets, according to an expert speaking at the 18th Global Securities Finance Summit in Luxembourg...

Touch technology firm sees short interest rise
22 January 2013 California
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A new entrant in SunGard Astec Analytic’s top ten stocks from a securities lending focus, InvenSense saw its share price make good gains in the week of 13 January ahead of its upcoming earnings results...

Eurex Exchange Council elects chairpersons
22 January 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

At its meeting on 21 January 2014, the Exchange Council of Eurex Deutschland elected a new chairperson, as well as the vice chairman for the next three years...

McGovern leaves Citi for BBH
21 January 2014 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Michael McGovern has left Citi for Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), as managing director, CIO and head of systems at the firm...

Euroclear states that its figures "eclipse" rivals
21 January 2014 Brussels
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Average daily collateral outstanding on Euroclear’s global collateral highway climbed from €700 billion at the end of 2012 to over €787 billion at the end of 2013, with peaks of up to €830 billion in the second half of the year...

Fraud rumours send Mindray Medical rocketing
17 January 2014 Beijing
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Whisperings of fraud are continuing to distress Mindray Medical, with a high amount of the Chinese firm’s stock having been borrowed since October...

BCS hires John Barker from Liquidnet
16 January 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BCS, the trader of equities and FX on the Russian exchange, has appointed John Barker as executive chairman of BCS Financial Group in London. Barker started his new role at BCS in January 2014...

Collateral management systems made defunct
16 January 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Interactive Data Corporation and Matrix Applications have agreed to provide data and tools to help asset managers to navigate the process of margining forward-settling trades...

Anticipated €50bn cash-flow drag from FTT
15 January 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

There will be an estimated an annual cash-flow drag of €30–50 billion resulting from the Financial Transaction Tax, suggested a report...

Eurex broadens collateral reach
14 January 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Eurex Clearing has extended its collateral services by providing direct connectivity into Clearstream’s triparty collateral management service (the global liquidity hub)...

Alexandra Ricciardi wields collateral expertise at BNP Paribas
14 January 2014 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNP Paribas Securities Services has hired Alexandra Ricciardi to extend the firm’s collateral franchise to North America...