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Second eSecLending departure confirmed
09 October 2013 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Will Gow has resigned from his managing director role at eSecLending, and has already left the securities lending agent...

Initial margin fears are realised
09 October 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A recent paper has explored the regulatory drivers for the implementation of initial margin and the challenges that institutions face from a systems, organisational and modelling perspective...

Lending given path between SL-x and Markit
09 October 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SL-x, a new capital markets electronic trading business, has signed an agreement with Markit to enable joint customers to move between them...

Not enough in the tank to dampen fire sales
08 October 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Regulatory mechanisms “fall short” as a comprehensive, market-wide approach to fire sales that can result from securities financing transactions, according to Federal Reserve governor Jeremy Stein...

Saurabh Seth to leave eSecLending
08 October 2013 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Saurabh Seth, managing director and co-head of securities finance at eSecLending, has resigned from his position, sources have revealed...

Securities financing services rise for Clearstream
07 October 2013 Luxembourg
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Assets under custody increased 5 percent year-on-year and securities finance services increased 4 percent, in a good batch of September figures for Clearstream...

Christopher Kunkle joins Wells Fargo
07 October 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Christopher Kunkle, formerly director of securities lending and market risk at the Risk Management Association (RMA), will be joining Wells Fargo Securities as a managing director of securities finance...

Global Prime Partners uses Liquid for P&L
04 October 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Global Prime Partners will offer a new platform to its portfolio of existing European clients, as well as all new prime brokerage clients...

eSecLending adds O’Neill to the ranks
02 October 2013 Boston
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Jeffrey O’Neill has been named as managing director, global head of trading at eSecLending...

Slight dip in daily volume at Eurex
02 October 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Jenna Jones

In September 2013, the international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 9.1 million contracts, a decrease of 1.1 million year-on-year...

Flurry of activity for OCC's lending CCP
02 October 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

OCC's securities lending central counterparty (CCP) activities saw a 21 percent increase in new loans from September 2012 with 87,792 transactions last month...

BlackBerry on top of hot stocks yet again
02 October 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SunGard Astec Analytics released its top ten hottest stocks from a securities lending perspective, which saw BlackBerry shooting back to the number one position...