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Greece shorting ban holds firm
08 December 2015 Athens
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Greece’s Hellenic Capital Market Commission has extended the ban on short selling on the Athens Exchange due to ongoing market volatility...

Hobbs takes on EMEA sec financing at Jefferies
08 December 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Derryn Hobbs has joined Jefferies as head of securities finance in Europe, the Middle East and Africa....

CME Group futures dip slightly in November
07 December 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

CME Group’s treasury futures volume averaged 3.3 million contracts per day during November, down 1 percent from the same period a year ago...

McDonald takes chair in EquiLend board reshuffle
07 December 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

James McDonald of State Street has taken over as chair of EquiLend Holdings...

Markit makes its ETF mark with big market players
07 December 2015 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BlackRock, BNY Mellon and State Street have approved Markit’s exchange-traded fund collateral lists for use in their collateral management schedules...

AXA expands Hong Kong sec finance roster
07 December 2015 Hong Kong
Reporter: Drew Nicol

AXA Investment Managers has appointed Deven Chau as senior trader in its trading and securities financing team in Hong Kong...

Fed needs a fuller picture of securities lending
04 December 2015 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The lack of data on securities lending, bilateral repo and derivatives trading could prove “destabalising” to the market, according to Federal Reserve vice president Stanley Fischer...

China opens door to Credit Suisse’s brokerage firm
04 December 2015 Hong Kong
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Credit Suisse Founder Securities can now expand into China after receiving a business permit from the country’s Securities Regulatory Commission...

OneChicago fail to capitalise in November
03 December 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

OneChicago recorded a 39 percent fall in securities financing volumes for November year-over-year...

Exclusive: Hovey to leave State Street
03 December 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Ian Hovey, head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa product development at State Street, is set to retire at the end of the year, according to multiple sources...

FIS hot stocks: 30 November
03 December 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The newly rebranded FIS Astec Analytics, previously issued under the SunGard banner, has released its ‘hot stocks’ list of the most demanded stocks for the week starting 30 November..

FIS finalises SunGard acquisition
02 December 2015 Jacksonville
Reporter: Drew Nicol

FIS has concluded its acquisition of SunGard...