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Pirum links up with BNY Mellon to improve trade efficiency
05 April 2013 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BNY Mellon’s global collateral services business has upgraded its AccessEdge collateral management portal with a newly-established link to Pirum’s new triparty required value (RQV) processing service...

SEC enforcement and regulatory practice to join Sidley Austin
04 April 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A group of 11 lawyers—ten partners and one counsel—will be joining the Sidley Austin law firm in multiple offices...

IOSCO is under new rule
02 April 2013 Sydney
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Greg Medcraft, chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, took over as chair of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) board at its Sydney meeting...

OCC on track with sec lending CCP activity
02 April 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

OCC's securities lending CCP activities saw a 15 percent increase in new loans over March 2012 with 95,686 transactions last month...

BNY Mellon names Sakati head of strategy and business development
02 April 2013 New York and Boston
Reporter: Jenna Jones

BNY Mellon has appointed Dean Sakati to the newly created position of head of strategy and business development for securities finance with the firm’s Global Collateral Services business...

Omgeo appoints three to board
28 March 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Omgeo has appointed Edward Hazel of Goldman Sachs, Richard Taggart of State Street and Susan Cosgrove of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) to its board of managers...

Jefferies strengthens securities finance team
27 March 2013 London and Hong Kong
Reporter: Jenna Jones

A source close to Jefferies has confirmed that Colin Bugler and Ina Kim have been recruited to the firm's securities finance team...

Fake pilots, thrown phones, and 8 other reasons to short a stock
26 March 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SunGard's Astec Analytics has rounded up what it considers to be the ten hottest stocks from a securities lending perspective...

Conifer recruits to help out with iCon
22 March 2013 San Francisco
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Conifer Group is expanding its sales team by naming David Goldstein as director and Elizabeth Whitehouse as vice president of business development...

Clearstream and Bloomberg give triparty repo a makeover
22 March 2013 Luxembourg
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream is collaborating with Bloomberg to provide clients with an automated order routing service that delivers another way to access tri-party repo transactions...

Information Mosaic signs off on Thomson Reuters coupling
21 March 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Post-trade software company Information Mosaic is to work with Thomson Reuters to integrate their ISO-based corporate actions data feed with Information Mosaic’s corporate actions solution, IMActions...

Lombard Risk REFORM for transaction reporting goes live
20 March 2013 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Lombard Risk Management’s REFORM for transaction reporting is now live, enabling firms to meet the 28 February US Dodd-Frank Act deadline...