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Clearstream's GSF rises 7 percent
13 January 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream’s global securities financing (GSF) services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, increased by 7 percent year-on-year, the company reported...

Short sellers were early indication of 2008 crisis
10 January 2014 Dallas
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Actions of short sellers likely provided an early warning of banks’ upcoming distress prior to the 2008 crisis, an academic study has suggested...

BNY/CIBC Mellon merger formalises new roles
10 January 2014 Toronto
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Three months after BNY Mellon and CIBC Mellon created a lending giant with the merger of their two desks, Phil Zywot and his team have formally become BNY Mellon employees from 1 January 2014...

Lending transactions rise for Brazil’s stock exchange
09 January 2013 São Paulo
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In 2013, securities lending transactions at BM&FBOVESPA reached a new milestone with a financial volume of BRL 1 trillion with 1,693,151 trades...

Shorters circle around Western Asset Mortgage Capital
08 January 2014 Pasadena
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

According to reports, Zacks has recently downgraded Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corp (WMC) from neutral to underperform...

Forestry mandate nabbed by Northern Trust
07 January 2014 Toronto
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Northern Trust has snapped up a forestry pension plan mandate originally maintained by RBC Investor Services...

OneChicago CEO cites securities lending in 2013 success
06 January 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

Equity finance exchange OneChicago has confirmed a December 2013 volume of 1,174,205 and a total volume of 9,515,194 for 2013...

Susan Martin is new CEO of the LPFA
06 January 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The London Pensions Fund Authority has made the appointment of Susan Martin as CEO official. Martin has been interim CEO since August, and was previously deputy CEO...

Qatar CSD goes private
03 January 2014 Qatar
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Qatar central securities depository has been established as a Qatari private shareholding company...

OCC sees 8 percent increase in new loans
03 January 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

OCC's securities lending central counterparty activities saw an 8 percent increase in new loans from December 2012 with 93,274 transactions last month...

Eurex Repo reaches 222.6 billion
03 January 2013 London
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

Eurex Repo reached an average outstanding volume of €222.6 billion across all repo markets in 2013, down from 234.7 billion in 2012...

Clearing Corporation of India now a CCP
02 January 2014 Mumbai
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Reserve Bank has made the Clearing Corporation of India a qualified central counterparty...