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Lending may follow for BNP Paribas mandate
01 October 2013 Oxfordshire
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNP Paribas Securities Services has on-boarded the assets of Oxfordshire County Council’s £1.5 billion pension fund as part of a mandate to provide global custody and valuation reporting services...

SocGen mandated for prime broker expertise
30 September 2013 Dublin
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) in Ireland has been mandated by EQI Asset Management to provide fund administration, financial reporting, transfer agency, taxation, custody and trustee services...

Rule Financial opens in Costa Rica
30 September 2013 Costa Rica
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Rule Financial has opened in Costa Rica after experiencing growing demand from clients in North America for nearshore delivery services...

Garritt takes top RMA sec lending job as Kunkle departs for Wells Fargo
27 September 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Fran Garritt is taking over as director of securities lending and market risk at the Risk Management Association...

BMO hires Keenan and DellaMaria
27 September 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BMO Global Asset has expanded its securities lending and short duration fixed income groups with the addition of Christopher Keenan as a senior securities lender/trader and Katherine DellaMaria as portfolio manager...

BNY Mellon pools all collateral services in new universe
27 September 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNY Mellon is seeking to aggregate all of its collateral functions by creating a ‘Collateral Universe’—the company’s suite of second-generation collateral management capabilities and solutions...

Global prime brokerage revenues sink
26 September 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A report stated that global prime brokerage revenues in 2012 were estimated at $12 billion, down from $15 billion in 2008...

Russian CSD puts on repository costume
26 September 2013 Moscow
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Russia’s central securities depository, National Settlement Depository (NSD), will take on the functions of a repository in respect of all types of contracts, including repo and derivatives...

Hottest stocks include BlackBerry and a snoring aid
24 September 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SunGard released their top ten hottest stocks from a securities lending perspective, which saw BlackBerry and Arena Pharmaceuticals again making the list...

Eurex CCP is new clearinghouse for SL-x
23 September 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Eurex Clearing will act as the clearinghouse for securities borrowing and lending transactions executed via SL-x’s (patents pending) electronic trading platform...

James Day bows out of UBS role
20 September 2013 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

James Day has left his position of global head of securities borrowing and lending sales and marketing at UBS...

Beneficial Owner conference: the fear of the unknown
20 September 2013 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

David Lewis, senior vice president of Sungard Astec Analytics, kicked off IMN's 18th annual European Beneficial Owners’ Securities Lending conference in London with a market update...