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OneChicago completes "record year"
06 January 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Stephen Durham

OneChicago’s December 2014 volume stood at 1,087,256, a decrease of 7 percent year-over-year...

BlackRock builds iShares team
05 January 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BlackRock has appointed Matthew Fowles to its iShares team to focus exclusively on the securities lending ecosystem and to help propel ETFs in to the mainstream assets market...

SGSS appoints new head of commercial
05 January 2015 Paris
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has appointed Christophe Baurand as global head of commercial, marketing and liquidity management...

Eurex Group’s 2014 figures dip
05 January 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Eurex Group has released its figures for 2014, showing a slight decrease in the average monthly outstanding volume compared to 2013...

Global Prime names new COO
05 January 2015 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Global Prime Partners has appointed Andrew Bole as chief operating officer...

Brad Hunt to leave Markit
05 January 2015 Singapore
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Brad Hunt is leaving Markit to pursue other interests. He will relocate from Singapore to join his family in London...

OCC enjoys second highest year for cleared contracts
05 January 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Stephen Durham

OCC cleared 4,333,019,384 contracts in 2014, a 4 percent increase from the 2013 volume of 4,170,855,768 contracts...

Record-breaking 2014 for Russia’s NSD
05 January 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Stephen Durham

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, has reported that the value of liabilities used in over-the-counter tri-party repo transactions with the Bank of Russia reached its highest level and exceeded RUB2 trilli

Fresh investigation for PwC
24 December 2014 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has launched a second investigation under its Accountancy Scheme into PricewaterhouseCoopers’s (PwC’s) conduct in its capacity as auditor to Barclays Bank...

Deutsche Bank securities lending roundup
24 December 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Research teams at Deutsche Bank have revealed the securities lending trends from the final quarter of 2014, including a positive spin on an automotive crisis...

CalPERS selects federal representatives
23 December 2014 Sacremento, California
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The CalPERS board of administration has selected two firms to represent its interests before the executive branch and US Congress...

L/S equity shows resilience in volatile market
22 December 2014 Paris
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index continued to slide in the week beginning 15 December as global risk aversion was elevated...