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Finadium: repo indices could be best hope for replacing LIBOR
14 August 2012 Concord, Massachusetts
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Repo indices could be a viable alternative to LIBOR as a global financial benchmark, according to a research report from securities and investment research firm Finadium...

Exclusive: Charlotte Wall leaves Markit Securities Finance
14 August 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Markit Securities Finance’s managing director and head of sales, Charlotte Wall, has left the financial information services company to join Olivetree Securities...

Fidelity Capital Markets launches a securities lending pricing tool
13 August 2012 Boston
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Fidelity Capital Markets’s prime brokerage division, Fidelity Prime Services, has released PB Optimize, a securities lending pricing tool that displays, compares and ranks securities lending rates and performance from prime brokers...

Indian regulator guides on sec lending
09 August 2012 New Delhi
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Repo, reverse repo, SLB and credit default swaps have all been addressed by India’s insurance regulator, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA)...

Lendable assets will top $11 trillion, say Celent
07 August 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Estimated worldwide total lendable assets are expected to be more than $11.6 trillion, stated Celent in its report: “Top Trends in Securities Lending: The Road to Recovery and Evolution”...

Morgan Stanley talk tri-party at Capitol Hill
07 August 2012 Washington D.C.
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A committee on securities, insurance and investment met to conduct a hearing entitled “The Tri-Party Repo Market: Remaining Challenges” in Capitol Hill, Washington D.C...

European repo market sidelined
06 August 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The European Repo Council of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) today released the results of its 23rd semi-annual survey of the European repo market...

Swinburne retires from Citi
03 August 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

It has been reported that Neil Swinburne, head of European securities lending trading at Citi’s prime broking arm, has resigned. Swinburne joined Citigroup in April 2006...

Internationals drop and equity ascends at Eurex
03 August 2012 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In July 2012, the international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 8.1 million contracts, a drop from the 10.1 million seen year-on-year...

OCC sees rise in July 2012 securities lending volume
02 August 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

OCC’s securities lending central counterparty activities saw a 19 percent increase in July 2012 when compared to the same period in 2011, with 80,674 new transactions...

Bombay Stock Exchange bans 52 stocks from sec lending
01 August 2012 Mumbai
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Bombay Stock Exchange has excluded 52 stocks from securities borrowing and lending trades. The ban will begin on September 28...

Lombard Risk bags another three
31 July 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Lombard Risk Management has secured three new contracts for its Colline collateral management software and its COREP programme...