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Bank of England finally drops interest rates
04 August 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The Bank of England has dropped interest rates by 25 basis points to 0.25 percent, with the outlook for growth in the short to medium term weakening “markedly”...

ENSO partners with EBS Treasury
04 August 2016 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

ENSO Financial Analytics has partnered with ICAP’s money market fund (MMF) platform EBS Treasury for cash and collateral movement workflows...

State Street has hot Q2 in securities finance
04 August 2016 Boston
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

State Street’s securities finance revenue reached $156 million in Q2 2016 thanks to seasonality...

OneChicago volumes slide in July
03 August 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Securities finance exchange OneChicago registered a trading volume of 853,607 in July 2016, marking a 27 percent dip compared to July 2015...

Eurex Repo continues summer slowdown
03 August 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Eurex Repo has continued its downward trend for 2016, recording an 18.61 percent decrease in average outstanding for July...

Wall Street Blockchain Alliance welcomes Calypso
03 August 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Calypso Technology, a technology solutions provider for global financial markets, has become a corporate member of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance...

Romania's new borrowing and lending rules take effect
02 August 2016 Bucharest
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

A revised framework for borrowing and lending financial instruments admitted to trading at the Bucharest Stock Exchange takes effect from today...

OCC records high stock loan activity
02 August 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Options Clearing Corporation’s year-to-date stock loan activity is up 41 percent from 2015, with more than 1.9 million new loan transactions so far in 2016...

Exclusive: Pascal Morosini leaves Clearstream
01 August 2016 Luxembourg
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Clearstream global head of securities financing sales Pascal Morosini has resigned from his position...

EquiLend acquires AQS
01 August 2016 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

EquiLend has acquired Automated Equity Finance Markets, commonly known as AQS, paving the way for "unprecedented access to central clearing services"...

Exclusive: Barnard leaves RBS
01 August 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Royal Bank of Scotland’s head of equity financing and derivatives, Mark Barnard, has left the bank as it continues to wind down its equity derivatives business...

Ross Levin moves to tech firm
01 August 2016 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Ross Levin has joined Pleeco, a financial technology firm in New York...