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Alison Phillips joins ING from Goldman Sachs
15 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Alison Phillips has been appointed to the financial markets business of ING as director of global securities finance sales for Europe...

Clearstream sees dip in securities financing
14 January 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream’s Global Securities Financing (GSF) services recorded a monthly average outstanding of €555.7 billion in December 2012...

BlackRock grabs hold of Credit Suisse’s ETF business
14 January 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BlackRock’s position in Swiss investment market is set to be extended after it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the ETF business of Credit Suisse...

Paladyne invests in buy side with four new hires
11 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Paladyne Systems, a Broadridge Financial Solutions company, has appointed Jim Feingold to the role of global head of sales...

Bank of America’s EMEA prime brokerage head to leave the firm
10 January 2013 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

A source has confirmed that Charlotte Burkeman, EMEA head of prime brokerage at the Bank of America Merill Lynch, is leaving the firm due to personal reasons...

Three’s the magic number for Citi, Euroclear and Clearstream
10 January 2013 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Citi is launching a triparty collateral management solution in conjunction with triparty agents Euroclear Bank and Clearstream that will allow mutual clients to consolidate their equity and fixed income holdings into a single collateral pool...

ASIC protects Australian money market funds
09 January 2013 Sydney
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The ASIC has said that idosyncracies in Australian money market funds mean that IOSCO concerns over their regulation does not apply to Australia...

SunGard rounds up 10 hottest stocks
08 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SunGard's Astec Analytics, which provides intraday short selling market colour, has rounded up 10 of the hottest stocks from a securities lending perspective...

eSecLending scrubs up nicely for Dow Chemical
07 January 2013 Boston
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Dow Chemical Company has chosen eSecLending to act as securities lending agent for its US pension plan assets...

ESMA peers at interoperability in CCPs
04 January 2012 Paris
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

ESMA has published a consultation paper on guidelines regarding the assessment of interoperability arrangements for central counterparty clearing...

Repo flying but trading volume dips at Eurex
03 January 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The international derivatives markets of Eurex Group ended 2012 with a turnover of approximately 2.3 billion contracts, a dip from the 2.8 billion seen in 2011...

OCC sees securities lending loan increase
03 January 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Jenna Jones

OCC securities lending counterparty (CCP) activities saw a 92 percent increase in new loans year-on-year with 86,694 transactions in December...