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Cowen Group acquires Concept Capital
20 July 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Cowen Group has completed an agreement to acquire prime brokerage service provider Concept Capital...

2015 looking good for Euroclear
20 July 2015 Brussels
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Euroclear has reported success across the board for the first six months of 2015, including a 10 percent increase in daily volumes on its Collateral Highway and record levels of collateral outstanding...

Taiwan to relax securities lending and borrowing rules
16 July 2015 Taipei
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) is set to relax rules on securities borrowing and lending from 1 January 2016, according to reports...

Bank of England to accept equities as collateral
16 July 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Banks will soon be able to offer the Bank of England equities as collateral, executive director Chris Salmon has revealed...

SunGard's hottest stocks
16 July 2015 Global
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SunGard’s Astec Analytics has compiled the hottest stocks from around the globe for the week beginning 6 July 2015...

Shaky June for Clearstream securities financing
15 July 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Clearstream’s global securities financing business reached an average outstanding of €609.3 billion in June, with its combined services registering a 3 percent dip from €626.9 billion in June last year...

Summer slump for SS&C GlobeOp
14 July 2015 Windsor, Connecticut
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for June 2015 measured 0.65 percent, while hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index (CMI) declined 2.71 percent in July...

Sec lending team moves into place at Cantor Fitzgerald
13 July 2015 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Stephen Grazioli has moved to Cantor Fitzgerald to join up with Rory Zirpolo...

Computershare acquires SIX SAG
13 July 2015 Zurich
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SIX Securities Services is selling SIX SAG, its business in share register services and general meetings for third parties to bank-independent issuer service provider, Computershare...

SEB expands relationship with 4sight
10 July 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SEB has successfully expanded its use of 4sight’s Oneworld Settlement system for its derivatives business...

SFTR text is published at last
09 July 2015 Brussels
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The EU Securities Financing Transactions Regulation’s text has finally been released for public scrutiny...

BM&FBovespa records more deals in June
09 July 2015 São Paulo
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Brazilian central counterparty (CCP) BM&FBovespa recorded more securities lending transactions in June compared with the month before...