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Macro managers build short positions
15 May 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Global macro managers that have built up short positions on European rates proved to be resilient overall in April, according to a brief from Lyxor...

SunGard's hottest stocks
14 May 2015 Global
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SunGard’s Astec Analytics has compiled the hottest stocks from around the globe, with UK oil companies profiting from the recent election...

Bumper April for Clearstream
13 May 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The monthly average outstanding for Clearstream’s Global Securities Financing (GSF) services reached €628.4 billion in April 2015...

Italy offers public sector securities lending
13 May 2015 Rome
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The Bank of Italy has made securities purchased under the Public Sector Purchase Programme available for lending, as of 11 May 2015, under the governance of Clearstream Banking...

Mixed results for SS&C
13 May 2015 Windsor, Connecticut
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The gross return of SS&C GlobeOp’s Hedge Fund Performance Index for April 2015 measured 0.34 percent, down from 1.30 percent in the previous month...

BNY Mellon drastically reduces intraday credit
12 May 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

BNY Mellon has completed its tri-party repo risk reduction initiative in support of the recommendations of the task force for Tri-Party Repo Infrastructure Reform...

Exclusive: William Wong joins Mizuho
12 May 2015 Hong Kong
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Mizuho Securities Asia has hired William Wong to expand their securities lending and equity financing business in Asia...

Collateral optimisation key to outsourcing decisions
11 May 2015 Boston
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Collateral optimisation should be carefully considered when considering outsourcing, according to a report by Sapient Global Markets...

AIFs at risk from asset segregation
11 May 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Asset segregation as proposed under AIFMD will compromise tri-party collateral management and securities lending, according to Ross Whitehill, managing director of BNY Mellon Markets Group...

GIC adopts Omego Alert
11 May 2015 Singapore
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Limited has adopted Omgeo Alert, the industry’s largest web-based global database for the maintenance and communication of account and SSIs...

Langworthy joins SEB in New York
08 May 2015 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Ted Langworthy has joined SEB as senior sales trader, within the hedge fund sales trading group, located in New York...

OneChicago gives its two cents
07 May 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Stephen Durham

OneChicago has requested guidance from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and US Department of the Treasury concerning three issues related to section 1058 of the Internal Revenue Code...