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Waddington takes sec finance role at State Street
02 March 2016 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Simon Waddington has left RBC Investor & Treasury Services to join State Street as head of business development for Europe, the Middle East and Africa securities finance...

4sight opens New York office
01 March 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

4sight Financial Software has opened a new office in New York, in response to increased demand, and several new mandates, in North America...

Short sellers not liking social media
01 March 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The collapse in share price among social media companies has taken short sellers by surprise, with demand to borrow falling by more than a third and short interest at a two-year low...

PASLA: Pushback on regulation begins
01 March 2016 Singapore
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Confidence in the Basel Committee’s recommended regulatory framework is being tested by several member states and senior financial figures, according to one PASLA/RMA conference panel...

Pirum automates loan release process
01 March 2016 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Pirum has completed work on its new Loan Release functionality, allowing lending clients to fully automate the release process for their new loan instructions...

Canadian early warning system exempts sec lending
29 February 2016 Toronto
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Securities lending transactions have been exempted from changes to Canada’s early warning system in certain circumstances, the Canadian Securities Administrators has confirmed...

Graulich takes on new role with Deutsche Börse
26 February 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Matthias Graulich has moved up the ranks of Deutsche Börse to become head of cross-markets strategy...

Brexit could threaten LSE–Deutsche Börse merger
26 February 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The potential merger of the London Stock Exchange and German exchange operator Deutsche Börse “would be put at risk” if the UK decides to leave the EU...

FIS hot stocks: 15 Feb
26 February 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Technology, medical and energy were some of the most shorted sectors in the past week, according to FIS Astec Analytics...

EXCLUSIVE: CIBC Mellon appoints new global head of sec lending
26 February 2016 Toronto
Reporter: Drew Nicol

CIBC Mellon has appointed Lisa Tomada as global head of securities lending, following the promotion of Jeffrey Alexander...

Murex presents market risk solution
25 February 2016 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Murex has devised a packaged solution to deal with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s new minimum capital requirements for market risk...

Hong Kong’s SFC expands scope of short reporting
25 February 2016 Hong Kong
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) will broaden short selling reporting rules to cover all securities that can be sold short through the Hong Kong Stock Exchange...