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Taiwan relaxes SBL rules further
09 March 2016 Taipei
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) will now allow brokers to borrow securities directly from customers and extend the rollover limit from once to twice, from 1 February, as part of a major overhaul of its securities lending framework...

BoE to offer extra repo operations near EU referendum
09 March 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Bank of England will offer three additional indexed long-term repo (ILTR) operations in the weeks around the EU referendum, in a bid to quell uncertainty in the markets...

Equities as collateral on the rise
09 March 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Post-crisis regulatory and macro-economic trends have turned conventional wisdom in the securities lending market on its head, bringing equities as collateral to the fore, according to Steve Kiely of BNY Mellon...

HilltopSecurities appoints new general counsel
08 March 2016 Dallas
Reporter: Drew Nicol

HilltopSecurities’s senior vice president Brian Wittneben has replaced Allen Tub as the company’s general counsel...

TradeStation’s Sredni to retire
08 March 2016 Plantation, Florida
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Salomon Sredni is set to retire as president and CEO of TradeStation Group, the parent company of TradeStation Securities, effective 31 March...

Schulte Roth & Zabel poach sec lending attorney
07 March 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Schulte Roth & Zabel has appointed Julian Rainero, previously of Bracewell LLP, as part of a major expansion of its broker-dealer attorneys roster...

Alexander takes on new role within CIBC Mellon
07 March 2016 Toronto
Reporter: Drew Nicol

CIBC Mellon has named Jeffrey Alexander to the newly-created role of vice president and head of relationship management...

IOSCO calls for greater collateral transparency
07 March 2016 Madrid
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has joined industry voices in calling for a more granular data collection of collateral transactions...

AIA Group appoints BNP Paribas for OTC
07 March 2016 Shanghai
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BNP Paribas Securities Services has been selected to provide OTC derivatives operations to Asian life insurance company AIA Group...

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...