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BondLend see record trading for the summer
06 September 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BondLend, the fixed income securities finance trading platform, experienced record trading by volume and value across June, July and August 2013...

Clearstream's GSF inches up
06 September 2013 Luxembourg
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream released its August figures, which slowed a slight rise in securities financing services year-on-year...

FSB addresses comments on lending
05 September 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In November 2012, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published its consultative document, A Policy Framework for Addressing Shadow Banking Risks in Securities Lending and Repos...

Ramped up collateral at Bank of Russia
05 September 2013 Moscow
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The value of securities used as collateral for the Bank of Russia’s OTC repo transactions as of 4 September 2013 is more than RUB120 billion...

OCC's lending CCP sees rise in loans
04 September 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) celebrated a slight rise in the number of contracts cleared, with total volume in August reaching 326,697,656 contracts...

Citi nabs Bilello from Deutsche Asset Management
04 September 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

John Bilello has joined Citi’s securities lending global product development team as a director...

OneChicago take advantage of deep pools
04 September 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Equity finance exchange OneChicago announced that August equity futures volume was up 45 percent year-on-year...

Deflated August volume at Eurex
04 September 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In August 2013, the international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 6.6 million contracts, a drop from the 7.2 million seen year-on-year...

Nokia wrings out short sellers
03 September 2013 Helsinki
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Nokia has struck a $7.2 billion deal with Microsoft to strengthen its position in the smartphone market, in a move that has inspired panic among short sellers...

Oger is new head of equity lending for BNP Paribas
03 September 2013 Paris
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Christian Oger is the new head of equity lending for BNP Paribas Securities Services...

Felix Oegerli promoted at Zürcher Kantonalbank
02 September 2013 Zurich
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Felix Oegerli has been named as the future trading, sales and capital markets head of Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB)...

Stephen Kiely leaves Citigroup
29 August 2013 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Stephen Kiely has resigned from his current role as director of client and sales management at Citigroup...