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Moelis Australia Securities and Weeden & Co cross-pollinate
09 July 2013 Sydney
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Moelis Australia Securities and Weeden & Co, a US institutional equity and fixed income broker, will ally to promote each company’s broker-dealer offering to each other’s institutional clients...

BNP Paribas wins Bahamas prime brokerage mandate
09 July 2013 Nassau
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Arabian Gulf Holdings has appointed BNP Paribas as the prime broker and custodian for its latest fund. The bank will provide prime brokerage services for all investments, margin financing, clearing, and securities lending and borrowing facilities...

Clearstream GSF services experience June drop
08 July 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Clearstream’s global securities financing (GSF) services experienced a monthly average outstanding of €581.9 billion in June...

J.P. Morgan appoints Stephane Marchand to new prime role
05 July 2013 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

J.P. Morgan has promoted Stephane Marchand to the role of managing director and head of prime and hedge funds services sales in Europe, the Middle East and Africa...

ESMA vice-chair to stick around
04 July 2013 Paris
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The European Securities and Markets Authority’s board of supervisors has re-elected Carlos Tavares as its vice chair...

Three custodian banks face ratings review
03 July 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BNY Mellon, State Street and Northern Trust are facing reviews of their long-term ratings because of narrow margins in core custody services and an over reliance on ancillary services such as securities lending, according to Moody’s...

June highs and lows at Eurex
03 July 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

As a group, Eurex international derivatives exchanges averaged a daily volume of 10.8 million contracts in June. This was down slightly from 11 million in 2012...

OCC stock loan activity up 28 percent
02 July 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Jenna Jones

OCC’s year-to-date stock loan activity is up 28 percent from 2012 with 638,520 new loan transactions in 2013. The average daily loan value at OCC in June was $56,188,067,455...

Rule Financial expands in Poland and New York
01 July 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Rule Financial, an independent provider of business consultancy and IT services to investment banks, has announced year-on-year growth...

Olivetree extends branch to SunGard
01 July 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Olivetree Financial Group has selected SunGard’s Astec Analytics to provide the users of its OTAS platform with faster, more comprehensive securities lending data...

Greece may be back in the short selling game
01 July 2013 Athens
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

It has been reported that Greece's capital markets regulator will lift a short selling ban now that the country's major banks have been recapitalised...

BMO adds to lending team with Jhangiani
01 July 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BMO Global Asset Management has expanded its securities lending group with the addition of LJ Jhangiani as a director and senior securities lender/trader from Allstate Investments...