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Markit rolls out triparty repo data
19 March 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Markit Securities Finance is seeking to capitalise on the $10 trillion repo market, with the expansion of its content and analytical services to include US dollar triparty repo transactions...

Connecticut pension fund 'chooses' Deutsche Bank
19 March 2013 Hartford
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Connecticut Retirement Plans & Trust Funds has mandated Deutsche Bank to provide it with securities lending services. The state’s pension system is conducting a master custodian search ahead of State Street’s mandate expiring on 30 June...

ESMA elects Gérard Rameix for board
18 March 2013 Paris
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Gérard Rameix has been elected to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) management board...

HSBC SS makes broker-dealer commitment with Iyer hire
18 March 2013 Singapore
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

HSBC Securities Services has appointed Ganesh Iyer as senior vice president for market and product development to develop and deploy the bank’s latest broker-dealer product solutions in Singapore...

Lombard Risk and Acadia link for collateral
15 March 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Lombard Risk Management and AcadiaSoft have teamed up to offer electronic collateral messaging...

Markit forum: healthy tension between buy and sell sides
14 March 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Markit Securities Finance hosted more than 150 people representing the great and the good of the European securities financing market in London for its 16th forum...

Torstone Technology in a blaze for FTT
13 March 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Torstone Technology, providers of securities and derivatives processing software to the global financial markets, has readied its Inferno post-trade processing solution for the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT)...

Collateral Highway adds agency cash management platform
12 March 2013 Brussels
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Newedge UK and EuroMTS will promote Euroclear’s Collateral Highway as a means of managing collateral for triparty repo transactions that are conducted on the firms’ agency cash management (ACM) platform in Europe...

Concept Capital lands prime brokerage managing director
12 March 2013 Atlanta
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Concept Capital Markets has recruited Charlie Fisher as a managing director in its prime brokerage services group. He joins the firm from Grace Financial Group and will be based in its newly established office in Atlanta...

BNP Paribas signs up to the Collateral Highway
11 March 2013 Brussels
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BNP Paribas is the latest firm to go live on Euroclear Bank’s Collateral Highway. The firms have been working since last year to develop their triparty collateral management arrangements...

Survey reveals European repo market decline
11 March 2013 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The size of the European repo market declined 0.9 percent between June and December 2012, according to the European Repo Council of the International Capital Market Association’s (ICMA’s) bi-annual survey...

GSF down but AUA up for Clearstream
08 March 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Clearstream has released its January 2013 figures, which show a decrease in global securities finance (GSF), but an increase in assets under custody...