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Brazil sees sec lending volumes build in 2016
16 January 2017 São Paulo
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Brazilian exchange BM&FBovespa saw securities lending transaction volumes worth BRL 692.74 billion (USD 215.3 billion) in 2016, up from BRL 665.73 billion (USD 206.9 billion) the year before...

FSB issues final sec lending recommendations
13 January 2017 Basel
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Financial Stability Board has issued new recommendations for securities lending as part of its review of risks threatening asset managers...

BlackRock reports Q4 revenue rise
13 January 2017 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BlackRock earned securities lending revenue of $138 million in Q4 2016, securing a million-dollar increase over the same period in 2015...

Deja vu for energy short sellers
13 January 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The energy and manufacturing sectors recaptured short sellers’ imaginations last week in a move that echoes the oil rout of Q1 2016, which provided rich pickings for the bears...

Global Prime Partners snags Ruetimann
13 January 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Markus Ruetimann has joined the board of Global Prime Partners as senior non-executive director...

BNY Mellon brings on McCarthy for ETFs
13 January 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BNY Mellon has hired Jeff McCarthy as CEO of exchange-traded funds...

Tradition to boost data reach through NEX Data
13 January 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Global pricing data provider NEX Data is set to become a distributor of Tradition’s market data and information services division, TraditionDATA...

SFTR RTS expected in Q4
12 January 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The final draft of the regulatory technical standards of the Securities Financing Transaction Regulation is not expected to be released until Q4 2017, according to International Securities Lending Association...

EXCLUSIVE: The Field Effect snaps up Barnard
11 January 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Specialist consultancy firm The Field Effect has appointed Mark Barnard as a senior consultant...

EXCLUSIVE: Davies to head BGC Partners sales
11 January 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BGC Partners has brought on Grant Davies to head up the sales team of its new collateral platform, COLLEX...

Bloomberg builds collateral management platform
11 January 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Bloomberg's MARS Collateral Management solution has secured HSBC Private Bank and more than a dozen corporations and financial institutions as clients...

ICMA: ECB sec lending must expand
11 January 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The International Capital Market Association has reaffirmed its calls for the European Central Bank to expand its securities lending facility in response to the extension of the central bank’s asset purchase programme...