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Intense market pressure fuels energy shorts
19 January 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Expectations for increased oil output following the lifting of Iran’s sanctions has put further pressure on oil prices and brought renewed vigor to short sellers targeting the beleaguered industry.

BNY Mellon adds to EMEA compliance team
19 January 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BNY Mellon has appointed Jacqueline Joyston-Bechal to lead its advisory compliance team for investment services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa...

BlackRock enjoys Q4 sec lending boost
18 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BlackRock’s securities lending revenue grew by $20 million in Q4 2015...

SEC’s proposed liquidity rules are not good enough
15 January 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed liquidity management rules for mutual funds and exchange-traded funds risk impeding understanding of fund liquidity and undermining effective liquidity management practices, according to the Securit

Goldman Sachs fined for improper sec lending practices
15 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $15 million to settle charges of improper securities lending practices that violated federal regulations...

Overnight repo still shines
14 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

More than half of repo trades collateralised with US treasuries are overnight or open trades, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s survey...

Hedge fund performance down, says SS&C
14 January 2016 Connecticut
Reporter: Drew Nicol

SS&C GlobeOp’s Hedge Fund Performance Index reported that gross returns fell by 0.34 percent in December 2015, down from 0.21 percent in the previous month...

Clearstream sees December GSF dip
13 January 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Clearstream’s global securities financing services scored a monthly average outstanding of €542.1 billion in December 2015, but the figure was down on the previous year...

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...