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Fitch: fire sale could burn repo
18 June 2015 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The repo market could be at risk if a ‘fire sale’ of assets hits financial markets, Fitch Ratings has warned in a new report...

Securities Financing Transactions Regulation almost here
17 June 2015 Brussels
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The EU Securities Financing Transactions Regulation has moved a step closer to implementation after the law’s final text was agreed...

Fidelity criticises FSB’s G-SIFI methodology
17 June 2015 Basel
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

US asset manager Fidelity has rubbished the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) latest proposed methodology for designating large individual investment funds as global systemically important financial institutions (G-SIFIs)...

SGSS: Institutions need to be bold
17 June 2015 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Asset managers and financial institutions will have to make bold decisions in order to adapt their collateral and liquidity management functions to global investment activities, according to Clement Phelipeau of SGSS...

Cevian’s game plan for ABB
16 June 2015 London
Reporter: Dealreporter

Dealreporter’s Adnan Siddique, CFA, discusses the latest European pre-event ideas: Swiss industrial conglomerate ABB Ltd and Italian constructor Salini Impregilo...

New collaboration for Grant Thornton and Foley O’Neill
16 June 2015 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Grant Thornton UK has agreed a new collaboration with Foley O’Neill which will see the two firms working together to offer specialist securities finance and collateral management consultancy services...

CloudMargin on the horizon for Metro Bank
15 June 2015 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Metro Bank has selected collateral management solution CloudMargin to provide collateral management technology for Metro Bank’s over-the-counter derivatives and repo portfolios...

SS&C GlobeOp hedge fund index up 0.34 percent
11 june 2015 Windsor, Connecticut
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SS&C GlobeOp has announced that the gross return of its Hedge Fund Performance Index for May 2015 measured 2.20 percent, up from 0.34 percent in the previous month...

SunGard's hottest stocks
11 june 2015 Global
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SunGard’s Astec Analytics has compiled the hottest stocks from around the globe for the week beginning 1 June 2015...

Watch out: SWIFT boosts data intelligence
10 June 2015 Brussels
Reporter: Becky Butcher

SWIFT has launched Watch for Securities, a new business intelligence solution that helps securities market participants to monitor and gain valuable business insights from their network traffic...

Hedge funds continue gains
10 June 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Hedge funds posted gains for the fourth consecutive month in May, led by equity hedge strategies, with significant contributions from technology, healthcare and fundamental value exposures, according to Hedge Fund Research...

The more the merrier, says Celent
10 June 2015 Shanghai
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The success of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect hinges on removing barriers to participation, according to a whitepaper published by Celent and commissioned by DTCC...