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Castles in the cloud for collateral management
08 June 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

CloudMargin and the CME Group are collaborating to offer clearing participants access to cloud-based software for automated and integrated collateral management...

ISLA gains new representative
08 June 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ISLA has added to its full time roster with the appointment of Sejal Amin as an ISLA representative...

Portuguese bank ravaged by bears, again
08 June 2016 Lisbon
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The largest private bank in Portugal, Banco Comercial Português, has had a third short selling ban imposed upon it in just six days...

Global swaps liquidity fragmentation persists
07 June 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The aggressive overhaul of the US swaps market to align it closer to European standards continues to drive cross-border liquidity fragmentation, according to a Tabb Group report...

ISLA 25th conference promises to divulge secrets
07 June 2016 Vienna
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ISLA's 25th Securities Finance and Collateral Management Conference on 21 to 23 June offers three days of industry discussion on a wide variety of topics, from emerging technology to regulation and tax developments relevant to both buy- and sell-side

SocGen holds on to trustee mandate in South Africa
07 June 2016 Johannesburg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Nautilus Managed Account Platform retained Societe Generale Securities Services to provide trustee services for its management company in South Africa...

LSE and Deutsche Börse publish merger documents
06 June 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Deutsche Börse have published several shareholder documents for review ahead of the exchanges’ respective shareholder meetings on 4 July...

CASLA: Automation easing sec lending workload
04 June 2016 Toronto
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Automation of securities lending transactions has proved so successful for general collateral lending that it is increasingly being utilised for higher value “warm trades”, according to a panellist at CASLA’s Conference on Securities Lending la

OneChicago's contract volume increased in May
06 June 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

OneChicago’s contract volume increased 4 percent in May compared to the same month in 2015, although open interest decreased 11 percent over the same period...

ESMA invites comment on blockchain potential
03 June 2016 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The European Securities and Markets Authority has issued a distribution paper and public consultation on the potential usefulness of distributed ledger technology in securities markets...

CASLA: CCPs feel northern chill
03 June 2016 Toronto
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The limited size of Canada’s securities lending industry means that only unilateral action by all participants could spearhead the creation of a Canadian CCP, according to panellists at CASLA's Conference on Canadian Securities Lending...

ICAP agrees to delay ending federal funds open rate
02 June 2016 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

ICAP has agreed to delay ditching the federal funds open rate at the request of associations that were worried their members were not given enough time to adjust to its replacement...