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OneChicago sees bittersweet March volumes
05 April 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Securities finance exchange OneChicago boasted a 65 percent increase in year-over-year volume for March...

EquiLend goes live on Eurex's Lending CCP
04 April 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

EquiLend’s link to Eurex Clearing’s Lending Central Counterparty goes live today...

Sovereign wealth funds cash in on collateral squeeze
04 April 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Sovereign wealth funds and central banks are emerging as large scale collateral providers, according to a study by BNY Mellon and the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum...

Yang leaves Barclays for Citi prime finance role
04 April 2016 Hong Kong
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Citi has appointed Angus Yang as head of prime finance for Asia Pacific...

CBA and SBSA kickstart Kenya’s repo market
04 April 2016 Nairobi
Reporter: Drew Nicol

A first-of-its-kind East African cross-currency repo transaction between Commercial Bank of Africa and Standard Bank of Southern Africa, worth $25 million, was completed in March...

OCC sec finance rockets up in March
04 April 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Options Clearing Corporation saw its central counterparty securities lending new loan volume soar by 47 percent year-on-year in March...

Committee on financial policy backs BOE repo pledge
01 April 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The BOE's committee on financial policy has endorsed the central bank’s decision to offer three additional indexed long-term repo operations while continuing to offer dollar liquidity in the weeks around the UK’s 23 June EU referendum...

Burgess takes the helm of SASLA
01 April 2016 Cape Town
Reporter: Drew Nicol

James Burgess of Macquarie Securities has reclaimed his role as chair of the South African Securities Lending Association...

Lombard’s Colline tackles uncleared margin regulation
01 April 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

A new version of Colline allows Lombard Risk’s client base to meet multiple global regulatory deadlines for uncleared margin rules, the technology firm has revealed...

FIS hot stocks: 21 March
31 March 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Technology, manufacturing and energy companies once again earned the most short interest during the week beginning 21 March but they are in danger because too expensive to borrow, according to the FIS Astec Analytics hot stocks list...

Northern Trust adds Gillingwater to sec lending team
31 March 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Northern Trust has appointed Joseph Gillingwater as head of fixed income securities lending trading for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the Asia Pacific...

GFMA rejects Basel internal risk model rules
31 March 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The Basel Committee of Banking Supervision (BCBS) proposal to restrict banks’ usage of internal risk models for determining credit risk is unnecessary and counterintuitive, the Global Financial Markets Association has said...