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New managing director for SGSS South Africa
08 July 2014 Johannesburg
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has welcomed Jean-Louis Bernardo as country head of South Africa.

Deutsche GTB creates ICSS unit
08 July 2014 London
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Deutsche Bank has aligned its trust and securities services, cash management for financial institutions and financial institutions and securities sales businesses into a single unit within the Bank’s Global Transaction Banking (GTB) division...

UAE to tighten up on trading
07 July 2014 Dubai
Reporter: Stephen Durham

A review and amendment of the regulations regarding lending by banks operating in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been agreed upon at a meeting comprising the state’s regulatory bodies...

Northern Trust wins two UK LGPS
07 July 2014 London
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Northern Trust has won two contacts for global custody services of Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire pension funds under the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)...

EquiLend breaks new ground in South Africa
04 July 2014 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

On 1 July, Absa Bank, the South African banking entity of Barclays Group Africa, became the first-ever domestic South African entity to execute a securities finance trade via the EquiLend trading platform...

Amherst merges with Pierpoint
03 July 2014 Texas
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Amherst Securities Group and Pierpont Securities have entered into a definitive agreement to merge, in a transaction that will create a fixed-income broker-dealer...

Banks could benefit from up to €40 billion
03 July 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephen Durham

A Clearstream-sponsored study has revealed the need for a “collateral value chain” in order to enable up to €40 billion in equity capital savings for European banks...

OneChicago's year-over-year volume skyrockets
02 July 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Stephen Durham

OneChicago’s June 2014 trading volume increased 63 percent year-over-year to 1,269,074...

Highs and lows for Eurex Repo
02 July 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Eurex Repo, the operator of the Swiss Franc, Euro Repo and GC Pooling markets, recorded an average volume of €238.6 billion in all markets in June...

More downs than ups for OCC
02 July 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Stephen Durham

OCC's securities lending CCP activity was down 17 percent in new loans from June 2013 with 100,658 transactions for the month...

ESMA publishes draft RTS on CRA3 transparency
01 July 2014 Paris
Reporter: Stephen Durham

ESMA has published its final report on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) required under the Credit Rating Agencies (CRA3) regulation...

SunGard's hottest stocks
01 July 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SunGard’s Astec Analytics have selected a wide variety of the globe’s hottest stocks, with entrants’ interests ranging from cement to internet gaming...