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Conifer snaps up Strauss as MD
04 March 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Conifer Financial Services LLC has hired industry heavyweight Jeff Strauss to join its business development team as managing director, based in New York...

UK supermarkets see shorting surge
04 March 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The food and retail sector is the most shorted in Europe, with UK supermarkets among the most affected, according to data from Markit...

PASLA: South Korea switched on for SBL
04 March 2016 Singapore
Reporter: Drew Nicol

South Korea is currently the most promising securities borrowing and lending (SBL) market, while China “will have a huge impact on the global SBL market”, if it ever opens...

FIS hot stocks: 29 Feb
04 March 2016 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Wirecard, Tesla Motors and Marvelous led the pack as short sellers capitalised on allegations of wrongdoing, charged ahead in the electric car market and used up a life in online games...

OneChicago makes strong start to 2016
03 March 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Securities finance exchange OneChicago has seen its February volume of 790,085 contracts dip 6 percent year-over-year, although year-to-date volume is up 19 percent...

CO:RE a hit for SIX
03 March 2016 Zurich
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

SIX Securities Services has gone live with its new repo trading facility, CO:RE...

Eurex Repo records frosty February
02 March 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Eurex Repo, a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse Group, saw a decrease in its average outstanding volume across all markets in February...

PASLA: Regulators still in the dark on shadow banking
02 March 2016 Singapore
Reporter: Drew Nicol

National regulators are beginning to introduce rules to tackle shadow banking but their priorities and timing differ, according to Paul Landless, partner at Clifford Chance...

Markit and CloudMargin partner up
02 March 2016 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Markit’s Portfolio Valuations services will be made available through CloudMargin's cloud-based collateral management system, the companies have confirmed...

OCC sees 54 percent rise in new loans
02 March 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Options Clearing Corporation’s securities lending central counterparty registered 150,326 transactions last month, up 54 percent in new loans from February 2015...

Waddington takes sec finance role at State Street
02 March 2016 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Simon Waddington has left RBC Investor & Treasury Services to join State Street as head of business development for Europe, the Middle East and Africa securities finance...

4sight opens New York office
01 March 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

4sight Financial Software has opened a new office in New York, in response to increased demand, and several new mandates, in North America...