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JSE launches new IRS futures product
02 September 2015 Johannesburg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Africa’s largest marketplace, launched JSE Eris interest rate swap (IRS) futures, last week...

OneChicago sees August highs
02 September 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

OneChicago, a securities finance exchange, boasted a 57 percent increase in its trading volume from 2014 for August 2015, with more than a million recorded trades...

OCC enjoys August sec lending climb
02 September 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) has announced that its securities lending central counterparty clearing activity was up 27 percent for new loans in August 2015 with 119,360 transactions...

BNY Mellon appoints new markets group president
01 September 2015 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BNY Mellon has appointed Michelle Neal as the new president of its markets group...

Greece renews short selling ban
01 September 2015 Athens
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Greece has renewed its ban on short selling until the end of September...

Japan adds T bills to sec lending facility
01 September 2015 Tokyo
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Bank of Japan will now include treasury discount bills (T bills) as approved securities to be sold through the Securities Lending Facility, following the recent turmoil in Asian markets...

Boom time for short sellers
01 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Short sellers enjoyed the highest level of average short positions heading into the downturn in over 18 months...

Shake-up in J.P. Morgan’s prime brokerage team
27 August 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

David Clarkson is leaving his role as European head of prime brokerage at J.P. Morgan, and will now pursue new opportunities outside of the firm...

REGIS-TR approved for energy regulations reporting
27 August 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The trade repository REGIS-TR has been approved as a registered reporting mechanism (RRM) for the European regulation on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency...

Taiwanese tech companies look shaky
27 August 2015 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The turmoil in Asian financial markets has prompted short sellers to target Taiwan’s technology companies, according to Markit Securities Finance...

Mark Demo joins AcadiaSoft
27 August 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

AcadiaSoft, provider of collateral hub MarginSphere, has hired Mark Demo as product director...

Investment management expert joins New York law firm
26 August 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Law firm K&L Gates has appointed Edward Dartley as a partner in its investment management, hedge funds, alternative investments and private equity practice, in the New York office...