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Short sellers hit Pandora as streaming intensifies
10 April 2015 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Short sellers are targeting online music streaming service Pandora as the content war heats up, according to Markit Securities Finance...

BCS Financial appoints chief strategist
09 April 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Becky Butcher

BCS Financial Group has appointed Vyacheslav Smolyaninov as chief strategist and deputy head of equity research...

Lending securities doesn’t forfeit governance
09 April 2015 Washington DC
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Securities lending does not stand in the way of institutional investors exercising their right to governance on company issues, according to a white paper...

Citi appoints Adam Herrmann
09 April 2015 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Citi has appointed Adam Herrmann as global head of prime finance...

SunGard’s hottest stocks
08 April 2015 Global
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SunGard’s Astec Analytics has compiled the hottest stocks from around the globe for the week beginning 30 March 2015...

‘Lacklustre’ March for US pension plans, says ISSG
08 April 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The funded status of typical US corporate pension plans fell by 0.4 percentage points in March 2015, declining to 87.2 percent, according to the BNY Mellon Investment Strategy and Solutions Group...

Clearstream opens Zurich base
07 April 2015 Zurich
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Clearstream has opened a new representative office in Zurich, which has been operational since 1 April...

Eurex volumes up for 2015
07 April 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Trading volumes at Eurex Exchange grew by 10 percent in Q1 2015, while March’s figures revealed an increase in repo trading in the majority of areas...

OCC announces 6 percent decrease in volumes
02 April 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Stephen Durham

OCC’s total cleared contract volume in March stood at 341,593,001 contracts, representing a 6 percent decrease from the March 2014 volume of 362,379,835 contracts...

New whitepaper from 4sight
01 April 2015 Edinburgh
Reporter: Stephen Durham

4sight Financial Software has published a new whitepaper looking at whether big data scenario analysis can be applied to collateral optimisation...

Operations affecting collateral markets, says CGFS
01 April 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The effect of central bank operations on collateral markets is becoming increasingly more important, as the regulatory landscape evolves and market practices change, according to a study...

EquiLend and BondLend launch Trade Match
01 April 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

EquiLend and BondLend have launched Trade Match, which provides an automated way to compare pre-settlement, cross-product securities finance transactions...