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Levin moves to Cowen to build securities finance
31 January 2017 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Ross Levin has joined Cowen Group to build a brand new securities finance and equity trading and clearing business...

First Irish UCITS funds win stock connect approval
30 January 2017 Dublin
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Value Partners Ireland, an Irish UCITS funds umbrella, has become the first to be approved by the Central Bank of Ireland to start investing in China A-shares through the new Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect...

FSB targets collateral rehypothecation and reuse
30 January 2017 Basel
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

There is no immediate need to harmonise regulatory approaches toward collateral rehypothecation, but reuse needs to be monitored on a global level, according to two new reports from the Financial Stability Board...

BrokerTec eyes up e-MID purchase
27 January 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BrokerTec is on track to acquire a controlling majority stake in e-MID SIM, the first Italian electronic central limit order book platform for inter-bank deposits and overnight indexed swaps...

Goldman Sachs funds begin lending
27 January 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Three of Goldman Sachs’s emerging market equity funds are now able to lend up to a third of their total assets...

GFF: ECB urges calm
26 January 2017 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Representatives from the European Central Bank attempted to ease the concerns of the repo industry over its controversial monetary policy during the Deutsche Börse Global Funding and Financing Summit...

GFF: Bridge over troubled liquidity
26 January 2017 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The merger of Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange will create a vital liquidity bridge between the EU and UK financial markets, post-Brexit, attendees of the Global Funding and Financing Summit heard earlier today...

GFF: Sovereign risk rising as liquidity falls
26 January 2017 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Regulatory-driven demand for high-quality collateral is creating new risk exposures for repo market participants, according to Michael Manna of Barclays...

Eurex Exchange council picks new chair
26 January 2017 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Eurex Exchange’s council has elected Carola Gräfin von Schmettow as chair...

Malaysian prime broker picks Protrader
26 January 2017 Kuala Lumpur
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Prime broker Maybank Kim Eng Securities has signed up with multi-asset brokerage and trading provider PFSOFT to give its prime services clients access to global equity and derivatives markets using Protrader...

Dutch regulator admits short notification error
26 January 2017 Amsterdam
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Dutch financial services regulator accidentally published the wrong daily short positions on its website earlier this week...

GFF: Pension funds left high and dry
25 January 2017 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Month-end liquidity pools are drying up and pensions funds are most at risk, according to a panellist speaking in Luxembourg...