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Sweden’s NASDAQ collateral management shakeup
08 May 2012 Stockholm
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Sweden-based exchange and clearing company NASDAQ OMX Stockholm (OMX STO) set up three clearing funds to mutualise risk, and revised its collateral management structure so as not to rely too heavily on custodians that are also clearing members...

FinTuition launches new sec lending course
07 May 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The training company's new securities lending education programme, which is aimed at professionals who want to develop an understanding of the industry, will be taught online...

Singapore’s 2012 sec lending activity shows April increase
04 May 2012 Singapore
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Singapore Exchange has released its securities lending activity figures for April...

Pirum automates RQV processing
04 May 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Pirum will start phase 1 of its new Triparty Required Value processing service (RQV). This new functionality offers a single solution covering the calculation, agreement, and processing of daily RQVs...

Blossoming sales team at Tullip Tree
04 May 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

John Jones has been appointed international sales director for Tullip Tree Advisors...

J.P. Morgan undergoes senior reshuffle
03 May 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale and Georgina Lavers

J.P. Morgan has reportedly made two redundancies in its prime brokerage division, while Securities Lending Times has been told that there has been another cut in its equity finance division....

Eurex report sizeable growth for Euro repo market
03 May 2012 Zurich
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In April 2012, the international derivatives exchanges of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 10.9 million contracts, a 0.4 million increase year-on-year...

BNY Mellon updates collateral management platform
03 May 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNY Mellon is renovating its collateral management platform for institutional clients by introducing an online central messaging service allowing market participants to transmit margin calls...

OneChicago releases April 2012 trading volumes
02 May 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

OneChicago (OCX), an equity finance exchange, today announced that a total of 228,685 security futures contracts were traded in the month of April 2012...

34 per cent rise in securities lending for OCC
02 May 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

OCC announced that cleared contract volume reached 321.9 million contracts in April, a 5 per cent decrease from the April 2011 volume of 338.6 million contracts...

NICE to detect securities fraud
01 May 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

NICE Actimize is to provide a hedge fund trading compliance solution designed to monitor the activities of hedge funds across all cash market and derivative asset classes (exchange-traded and OTC)...

4sight looks to better collateral optimisation
01 May 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

4sight Financial Software is seeking to further its collateral management service with the launching of a collateral optimisation module for its Xpose system...