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Citi nabs Pery
08 July 2011 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Citi has hired Fergus Pery as the global product head of OpenCollateral...

CASLA and FinTuition launch new course
08 July 2011 Toronto
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The Canadian Securities Lending Association has selected FinTuition as its partner in launching its new education initiative...

Mizuho select Helix
08 July 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Mizuho Securities has chosen HelixRepo as its front office trading platform. HelixRepo facilitates the integration of the repo business onto a platform that is designed to efficiently enable traders to manage its repo and financing business.

Daiwa announces senior hire
07 July 2011 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Daiwa Capital Markets has hired Christopher Owen as head of secured financing for its Global Equity Finance franchise...

Euroclear UK & Ireland enhances DBV service
05 July 2011 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Euroclear UK & Ireland (EUI) is increasing collateral management efficiency and reducing operational risks and costs in the UK for securities finance transactions, primarily involving repos...

OneChicago announces June volumes
04 July 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

OneChicago, has announced that a total of 393,546 security futures contracts were traded in the month of June 2011...

All change at BoAML
04 July 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Three senior executives within securities lending have left Bank of America Merrill Lynch...

OCC volumes see June rise
04 July 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Total cleared volume at OCC in June reached 376,877,261 contracts, a 21 per cent increase from the June 2010 volume of 311,231,916 contracts...

Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext to formalise tie-up
01 July 2011 Frankfurt
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext have formally notified their planned business combination to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition...

Emerging markets 'key to growth'
30 June 2011 Lisbon
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

According to the ISLA emerging markets panel on Wednesday a large gap has evolved between supply and demand in many emerging markets – the largest gap being in Russia and Israel...

Exclusive: RBC Dexia signs on to EquiLend
28 June 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

EquiLend is pleased to welcome RBC Dexia Investor Services to the EquiLend community. The company will be a solid addition to EquiLend’s preeminent securities finance clients on its trading and post-trade platform.

SunGard Reaches Agreement to Acquire FINACE
Zurich June 28, 2011
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

SunGard has reached a definitive agreement with Swisscom IT Services, part of leading Swiss telecommunications group Swisscom, to acquire its Zurich-based unit FINACE, a provider of securities lending, repo, synthetic finance and collateral managemen