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BNY Mellon ramps up collateral management
04 December 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNY Mellon is enhancing its AccessEdge portal via a new link with Bloomberg to help clients further optimise their collateral management...

Eurex repo rises year-on-year
03 December 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Eurex Repo, which operates Swiss Franc Repo, Euro Repo and GC Pooling markets, reported in November 2013 for all Eurex Repo markets an average outstanding volume of €230.3 billion, rising from the €226.4 billion recorded in November 2012...

OCC cleared contract volume up in 2013
03 December 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

OCC’s year-to-date total cleared contract volume reached 3,844,949,842 contracts in November, up 3 percent from 2012...

BCS pushes London/Moscow hub
02 December 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BCS, a trader of equities and derivatives on the Russian exchange, has hired Gareth Johnson as senior trader to the London office, as of the beginning of October...

BSE cuts 2 securities from SLB segment
02 December 2013 Mumbai
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Bombay Stock Exchange has disallowed two securities, Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank, from being lent or borrowed...

Neeraj Sahai says his goodbyes at Citi
29 November 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Neeraj Sahai is to depart as head of Citi's securities and fund services business and join Standard & Poor's Ratings Services as president...

New help for HK"s electronic trading rules
29 November 2013 Hong Kong
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Markit will provide members of the Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) an online solution to help compliance with new electronic trading rules from Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)...

US Airways Group at top of the shorting pile
28 November 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SunGard Astec Analytics released its top ten hottest stocks from a securities lending perspective, which gave US Airways Group the top spot.

Algomi hires for launch of NY office
28 November 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Algomi, the provider of information-matching solutions to optimise fixed income liquidity, has hired Stephen Gallagher as head of its US operation...

October positive for hedge fund inflows
26 November 2013 New York
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

Multi-strategy hedge fund flows outpaced all others in October while macro strategies continued to attract allocation, according to eVestment...

4sight encourages optimisation from all angles
22 November 2013 Edinburgh
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

Regulatory and cost headaches are leading firms to a search for ways to optimise various aspects of trade types that involve some level of counterparty credit risk, said a recent whitepaper...

Twitter shares on loan up, borrowing fees down
21 November 2013 London
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

Following its IPO on 7 November, the latest data shows that the amount of Twitter's shares on loan has risen steadily, whilst the fees to borrow are down...