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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...

GFF: 11th-hour EMIR respite highly likely
25 January 2017 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Last minute relief for market participants from the looming derivatives margin rules is highly likely, with many expected to miss the 1 March deadline, according to panellists at the Deutsche Börse Global Funding and Financing Summit...

Stephen Howard to leave EIP Hong Kong
25 January 2017 Hong Kong
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Stephen Howard is stepping down from his head of trading role at Enhanced Investment Products in Hong Kong...

Pirum links up with ColleX
25 January 2017 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Pirum Systems has linked its real-time straight-through processing services for the securities finance industry to ColleX, a platform for collateral trading...

NSD to launch OTC repo collateral service
24 January 2017 Moscow
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Russia’s National Settlement Depository, in partnership with Bloomberg, is preparing to launch a new collateral management service for over-the-counter repo transactions in March...