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Zubair Nizami wraps up at Robeco
24 January 2013 Hong Kong
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Zubair Nizami, a senior securities lending trader at Robeco is set to depart in February, sources confirm...

Agent lenders asked indemnification questions, says Finadium
24 January 2013 Concord
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Strong institutional participation, stabilised fee splits and concern over indemnification were just three of the trends that Finadium identified in its securities lending survey...

Two Vermuts and Ron Suber leave Wells Fargo to Prosper
23 January 2013 San Francisco
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Stephan Vermut, Aaron Vermut and Ron Suber have all left Wells Fargo to join the peer-to-peer financing platform Prosper...

Eurex Repo to fund GC Pooling and Euro Repo markets
21 January 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Eurex Repo will extend the maximum term of tradable securities for the Eurex Repo markets such as GC Pooling and Euro Repo...

Swedish bonds are safest in the world, says ING
21 January 2013 Sweden
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

For default risks, ING Investment Management has judged the Swedish government bond market to be the safest bond market in the world...

RMA plays nice with FSB’s “shadow banking” recommendations
18 January 2013 Switzerland
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Committee on Securities Lending of the Risk Management Association has responded to the FSB on its proposals to toughen up regulation of “shadow banking”, praising the board’s efforts to understand the sector...

Clearstream and Belfius expand collateral services
18 January 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream and Belfius have agreed to develop exclusively a new collateral management activity for bilateral trades, focusing on over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and aimed primarily at corporates and medium-sized banks...

Albert Fried & Company opens new prime lending division
18 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Albert Fried & Company is expanding securities lending into a newly created prime lending services division...

BNY Mellon 4Q results reveal dip in securities lending revenue
17 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

While improvement in market values meant good news for BNY Mellon’s investment management, asset servicing, clearing and treasury services businesses, investment services fared slightly worse in the bank’s Q4 2012 results...

CSDs hold hands for collateral crunch
17 January 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Central securities depositories (CSDs) including ASX (Australia), Cetip (Brazil), Clearstream (Frankfurt/Luxembourg), Iberclear (Spain) and Strate (South Africa) have all teamed up and are encouraging other regions to join them in extending a global

CalPERS re-elects Feckner and Diehr for board
15 January 2013 Monterey
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Rob Feckner and George Diehr will remain on the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) board of administration after it unanimously re-elected them as president and vice president respectively...

DataLend upgrades for user experience
15 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

New enhancements and features have been added to EquiLend’s data service for the securities finance industry, DataLend, including an ability to access a pre-defined list of securities to return metrics for a selected business date...