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Short sellers target Chinese automobile industry
09 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

China’s ongoing financial woes have led short sellers to target struggling Chinese automobile stocks, according to Markit..

Associations offer mixed review of FSB data proposals
08 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Industry associations have expressed a preference for the use of position level data to make securities lending more transparent, in a response letter to the Financial Stability Board’s data experts group meeting...

Wood takes the helm of BCS’s PB sales team
08 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BCS Global Markets has chosen Adam Wood to become the new director of its prime brokerage sale team in London...

Simmons & Simmons expands London presence
08 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has appointed Khasruz Zaman as a partner in its corporate and commercial practice...

HTC loses Asian exchange top-spot
07 September 2015 Taiwan
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The continued free-fall of smartphone maker HTC’s stock value has resulted in it being dropped from Taiwan Stock Exchange’s 50 largest listed firms index...

BSE adds rollover option for sec lending contracts
07 September New Delhi
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has launched a rollover facility for its securities exchange service in an attempt to boost interest in the securities lending market...

ECB pessimism triggers euro slump
04 September 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The European Central Bank (ECB) has cut its growth and inflation forecasts, causing the euro to drop to a two-week low...

Pioneer Investments creates new vice president role
04 September 2015 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Pioneer Investments has named John Black to the newly created role of senior vice president and institutional business development officer...

Chanod seeks new opportunities with Wells Fargo
04 September 2015 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Chris Chanod, formally of PrimeOne Solutions, has taken on a new role as director for prime services sales at Wells Fargo...

ISLA: demand up for equity as collateral
03 September London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Equities now take up 57 percent of all collateral held by triparty service providers, according to an International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) market study...

Finglas moves on from BNP Paribas
03 September Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Jemma Finglas has resigned from BNP Paribas after 10 years service, effective immediately...

Moving on up
02 September 2015 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

CACEIS’s Sofian Mezrag has moved up the ladder to take on the role of manager of the middle office/operations...