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

SunGard’s Astec Analytics has compiled the hottest stocks from around the globe for the week beginning 22 June 2015...

Greece adds short selling ban to the mix
01 July 2015 Athens
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

A complete ban of short selling was enforced across Greece on 30 June as the country attempts to prevent its economy from collapsing...

Wells Fargo confirms Sackett hire
01 July 2015 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Wells Fargo Securities has confirmed that Robert Sackett has joined its prime services division as managing director and head of securities lending...

Broadridge wins BBVA post-trade mandate
01 July 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BBVA Group has adopted Broadridge’s Managed Service as a post-trade utility model to support its fixed-income business in the US...

OCC cleared contracts down from 2014
01 July 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Stephen Durham

OCC’s cleared contract volume in May reached 308.6 million contracts, a 3 percent decrease from the May 2014 volume of 319.7 million contracts...

Greece is the word: Lyxor not concerned
30 June 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The risk of instability in Greece is limited for the hedge funds on the Lyxor platform as few of them hold direct net exposures to Greek assets...

Synthetic financing transactions on the rise
29 June 2015 Edinburgh
Reporter: Stephen Durham

A survey of 56 market participants carried out by swaps technology provider 4sight and consultancy The Field Effect has revealed that 32 percent of participants are currently booking synthetic financing transactions...

Greek regulator fines funds over naked short selling
29 June 2015 Athens
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Greece’s securities regulator has fined dozens of funds for naked short selling...

GCF repo settlement reform to extend into 2016
29 June 2015 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The last leg of the Tri-party Repo Infrastructure Reform Task Force’s seven-point roadmap for reform, the full alignment of GCF repo settlement with the new triparty settlement process, still needs to be completed, according to the Federal Reserve

Linear Investments deploys Ancona analytics
26 June 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Investment manager Linear Investments has successfully deployed Ancoa’s market surveillance and analytics capabilities for its execution and trading platforms...

Russian and Chinese CSDs team up
26 June 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NSD) and China Central Depository and Clearing (CCDC), which services governmental securities, have agreed to work together to boost participation in both markets...

ETF investors poised in Russia
25 June 2015 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors continue to position themselves to benefit from a recovery in the Russian market despite continued unrest and sanctions, according to Markit...