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India’s NSE adds three-month rollover
27 May 2015 Mumbai
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

India’s National Stock Exchange (NSE) has introduced a rollover facility to boost participation in securities lending and borrowing...

Straight AA+ for OCC
27 May 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Equity derivatives clearing organisation Options Clearing Corp. (OCC) has retained its AA+ or ‘stable’ rating from Standard & Poor’s...

BM&FBovespa has a fruitful Q1 2015
27 May 2015 São Paulo
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Brazilian central counterparty (CCP) BM&FBovespa saw securities lending revenue of BRL 22.2 million ($7 million) in Q1 2015, beating the same quarter in 2014 by 4.9 percent...

Mark Schilling heads to Pirum
26 May 2015 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Pirum Systems has named Mark Schilling as its new global head of sales...

Markit’s most shorted: Abercrombie & Fitch and APAC
26 May 2015 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Abercrombie & Fitch is attracting short interest ahead of earnings announcements, while Australian firms are among the most shorted in the Asia Pacific and China, according to Markit Securities Finance...

All change at Nomura
22 May 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Nomura has shuffled the pack and added two new executives to its US prime finance team...

Forward redemptions up in May for SS&C
21 May 2015 Windsor, Connecticut
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for May 2015 has shown notifications of 4.68 percent, up from 3.36 percent in April...

SocGen Prime Services improves portfolio margining
20 May 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Societe Generale Prime Services has launched a portfolio margining service for clients trading on the CME Group exchange...

ENSO expands executive team
20 May 2015 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Hedge funds service provider Enso Financial Analytics (ENSO) has hired Julian Pittam as head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Stephen Caplen as global COO...

Japanese e-broker signs to DataLend
20 May 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The Japanese brokerage subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, kabu.com Securities, has signed on to DataLend for securities finance market data...

The Debate: managing collateral
20 May 2015 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

DTCC, Torstone, SGSS and State Street give their take on regulatory requirements around OTC derivatives and their opinion on the best collateral management systems...

BlackRock sets the record straight
19 May 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Policy makers have misunderstood securities lending practices and associated risks, according to a whitepaper from BlackRock...