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Hermes: Not all bad news in Chinese markets
12 January 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The market sell-off in China has led to a spike in short-term repo rates but, in the long term, “fundamental reform” is required in order to turn the jurisdictions fortunes around...

HCMC rejects ESMA’s rejection
12 January 2016 Athens
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Greece’s Hellenic Capital Market Commission has disregarded the European Securities and Markets Authority’s disapproval of its renewal of the short selling ban...

Bobby Colon bows out of securities lending
12 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The head of US securities lending at RBC Capital Markets, Bobby Colon, has retired...

SFTR goes live today
12 January 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

New European regulations demanding greater transparency and more comprehensive reporting requirements for securities financing transactions will come into effect today...

Stanbic IBTC launches Nigerian securities lending
12 January 2016 Lagos
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Stanbic IBTC Bank has launched a securities lending product in Nigeria...

EXCLUSIVE: DataLend appoints Allen as product owner
11 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

DataLend, the securities finance market data division of EquiLend, has appointed Nancy Allen as product owner, effective immediately...

Societe Generale launches SG CTA Mutual Fund Index
11 January 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Societe Generale Prime Services has created a new SG commodity trading advisor mutual fund index...

Markit’s most shorted ahead of earnings
11 January 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Fastenal, Suedzucker and Cave Interactive are among the most shorted companies ahead of upcoming earnings announcements, according to Markit...

ESMA is short with national regulators
08 December 2015 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Only one in five EU national regulators is fully compliant with the Short Selling Regulation, according to a peer review by the European Securities and Markets Authority...

Options trades boosts CME’s December
08 January 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

CME Group’s options volume in December averaged 2.7 million contracts per day, up 3 percent over the same month in 2014...

OneChicago goes from strength to strength
07 January 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

OneChicago achieved its third consecutive record year, chalking up 7 percent volume growth in 2015...

OCC sees December sec lending boost
06 January 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Options Clearing Corporation's securities lending central counterparty activities saw a 19 percent increase in new loans in December 2015 from the year before...