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Brian Crowe to stand down at Lombard
16 July 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Brian Crowe, a non-executive director of Lombard Risk Management has stood down after a career change. Crowe joined the board in 2004 at the time of its IPO on AIM...

Short selling has implications for SEB and EMCF
13 July 2012 Sweden
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The European cash equities clearing company EMCF published a letter to clients on short selling. "We would like to bring the implementation of the EU Regulation on short selling to your attention...

Peter Herrlin is London prime brokerage head at SEB
13 July 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Peter Herrlin will be the new head of the SEB’s prime brokerage division in London. Herrlin, who joined SEB in 2010, succeeds Atilla Olesen, who has transferred to Denmark...

Finadium surveys asset managers
12 July 2012 Massachusetts
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Securities and investment research firm Finadium has released a report that identifies current concerns and future trends across custody, securities lending and collateral management...

J.P. Morgan integrates teams ahead of regulatory reform
11 July 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

J.P. Morgan has integrated the teams responsible for brokering client derivatives and securities trades with those that look after the back office aspects of those trades in response to regulatory reforms...

Clearstream's June 2012 figures show increase
10 July 2012 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Post-trading services provider Clearstream of the Deutsche Börse Group has released its June 2012 figures, revealing that the monthly average outstanding for global securities financing services reached €598.3 billion...

Catalyst recruits Clements
10 July 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Catalyst Development has added Steve Clements as a managing consultant in its operations practice. He is a senior specialist in operations, treasury and liquidity, and cash and collateral management...

Deutsche Bank makes changes in global transaction banking division
09 July 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Deutsche Bank’s global transaction banking (GTB) division has announced several key appointments in its trust and securities services and cash management for financial institutions (TSS/CMFI) business...

BNY Mellon settles Sigma lawsuit
09 July 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BNY Mellon has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit connected to the Sigma Finance structured investment vehicle for up to $280 million...

Euroclear’s highway to collateral
09 July 2012 Brussels
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Euroclear has devised what it terms a ‘Collateral Highway’, which it hopes will create the first fully open global market infrastructure to source and mobilise collateral across borders...

LIBOR scandal escalates
06 July 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The former CEO of Barclays, Bob Diamond, has apologised to UK MPs, but denied personal culpability, for the bank’s manipulation of LIBOR rates...

Cries of fraud for Chinese tech company Quihoo
04 July 2012 Bejing
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Quihoo has joined the list of Chinese companies accused of fraud by shortsellers. The Bejing-based online security software developer has denied allegations made by Anonymous Analytics that user traffic on its website is lower than described...