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EXCLUSIVE: Eurex offers respite from capital costs
30 August 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Eurex Clearing is preparing to offer a new hybrid membership model that combines elements of a direct clearing membership and the traditional client clearing service model...

Bank of Japan: Fintech the future for financial services
25 August 2016 Tokyo
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Blockchain and artificial intelligence are likely to play a large part in financial services in the future, according to the governor of the Bank of Japan...

ECB proposes shadow banking tax
25 August 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The European Central Bank has proposed the introduction of a tax on ‘shadow banking’ profits in order to check the growth of the controversial alternative financing industry...

Weaver joins Citadel
24 August 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Ex-BlackRock head of securities lending Michael Weaver has resurfaced as COO of Citadel Surveyor Capital...

Hong Kong slaps Morgan Stanley with $2.4 million fine
24 August 2016 Hong Kong
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Morgan Stanley has been fined USD 2.4 million by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission for “internal control failures”, including inadequate disclosure of short selling orders...

OFR: agent lenders have a $1 trillion stake
24 August 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The US Office of Financial Research has taken another step towards achieving its goal of better quantifying the securities lending market with the publication its 2015 pilot industry survey results...

trueEX adds BRL to its IRS product
23 August 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

trueEX has expanded its interest rate swaps offering by adding Brazilian real to its roster of available currencies...

EXCLUSIVE: Hutchings returns as new COO of ISLA
22 August 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Mark Hutchings has been appointed as the International Securities Lending Association’s (ISLA) new COO following the promotion of Andrew Dyson to CEO...

Deutsche Bank accused of new reporting violations
22 August 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Deutsche Bank is facing fresh charges of swaps data reporting violations after the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission accused the bank of reporting late and incorrect swaps data for multiple asset classes over a five-day period...

Singapore sees short selling slide
19 August 2016 Singapore
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Demand to borrow Singapore’s STI index listed shares has fallen by 27 percent after a spike in average shorting interest in February, according to IHS Markit...

Short sellers find new target in Europe
19 July 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Short sellers continued to press their latest target LivaNova, while old favourites Tesla Motors and IMAX China Holdings held their tops positions in the FIS Astec Analytics hot stocks list for the week beginning 8 August...

SASLA names Juanita Taylor as new chair
19 July 2016 Johannesburg
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Standard Bank’s Juanita Taylor has taken over as chair of the South African Securities Lending Association...