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No remedy in sight for biotech sector
24 March 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Short interest in biotech stocks are at record highs as a handful of stocks post positive returns, according to Markit...

EXCLUSIVE: DNB Bank head of sec finance to leave
23 March 2016 Oslo
Reporter: Drew Nicol

DNB Bank’s head of trading securities finance, Dag Rudiløkken, is set to move to Nordea Bank, according to multiple sources...

Commerzbank derivatives head to leave
23 March 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Commerzbank’s Eugene Stanfield, head of derivatives execution and clearing, is set to leave the bank after eight years, according to multiple sources...

Bank de France launches sec lending on GC Access
23 March 2016 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

France’s central bank has made high-quality collateral available for securities lending through Euroclear’s GC Access programme...

Borsa Istanbul to introduce short indices
22 March 2016 Istanbul
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Borsa İstanbul, Turkey’s primary stock exchange, will start to calculate leveraged and short indices that cover investment strategies from 1 April...

Hedge funds hungry for more risk
22 March 2016 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Hedge funds are slightly revising up their risk appetite after reassurance from the US Federal Reserve on the building consumer price index, according to Lyxor’s Weekly Brief...

Eurex expands equity index segment with USD futures
21 March 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Eurex Exchange has launched new US dollar-denominated futures on the Euro STOXX 50 index...

Markit and IHS to merge
21 March 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Financial research providers IHS and Markit are planning a merger valued at $13 billion...

ESMA: EU market vulnerable to HQLA shortage
18 March 2016 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

A bear market may cause tension in some asset market segments due to a scarcity of high-quality collateral, according to the European Securities Markets Authority...

Overgrown hedge fund numbers facing major pruning
18 March 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The number of hedge fund closures in 2015 was at its highest level since the financial crisis, while the number of new launches was at its lowest since 2010, according to a Hedge Fund Research (HFR) Market Microstructure Report...

Montréal Exchange grows IRSF offering
18 March 2016 Montréal
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Montréal Exchange is expanding its interest rate derivatives offering with the launch of Canadian dollar interest rate swap futures, going live in September...

Taiwan: Sec lending ETFs barred from currency reform
17 March 2016 Taipei
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Exchange-traded funds involved in securities lending have been excluded from the latest round of regulatory reforms from the Taiwan Stock Exchange on dual-currency trading mechanisms...