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LCH.Clearnet boosts liquidity for fixed income players
12 March 2014 Paris
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

LCH.Clearnet has launched €GCPlus, a central clearing service for the triparty repo market, in collaboration with Euroclear and the Banque de France...

BNY Mellon teaches collateral eligibility
11 March 2014 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNY Mellon is implementing an enhanced collateral management programme for BofA Merrill Lynch to expand collateral eligibility...

SEC cracks down on shorting with record fine
11 March 2014 Long Island
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has slapped the largest-ever monetary sanction for a Rule 105 short selling violation, as a Long Island-based proprietary trading firm and its owner agreed to pay $7.2 million to settle charges...

Bilateral collateral is on the table at Clearstream
10 March 2014 Luxembourg
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream is rolling out a bilateral collateral management service which aims to strengthen the OTC processing capabilities of the ‘global liquidity hub’, the company’s integrated risk and liquidity management solution...

Graham Vidler joins NAPF
10 March 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has appointed Graham Vidler as head of external affairs...

Euroclear’s ‘collateral highway’ rises 12 percent
07 March 2014 Brussels
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Euroclear released its highlights of 2013, which showed that the value of securities held on behalf of its clients grew 5 percent year-on-year, to €24.2 trillion...

CalPERS appoints new committee members
07 March 2014 Sacremento
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) board of administration has elected a number of new chairs and vice chairs to their board committees...

Repo rises at Eurex Group
07 March 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Contracts have slipped by 800,000 year-on-year for Eurex Group, but repo markets are on the rise...

Daniel Maguire new head of SwapClear
07 March 2014 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

LCH.Clearnet has promoted Daniel Maguire to global head of SwapClear, its interest rate swap clearing business...

Doran Jones recruits 'revolutionary' tester
06 March 2014 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Doran Jones has recruited software tester Paul Holland to be managing director of its testing practice...

Shorters fan the flames of Manchester United
06 March 2014 Manchester
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Short interest in the US listing of Manchester United (MANU) is at a record high of 1.97 percent of the total shares...

AMG Global seeks prime clearing strength
06 March 2014 Amsterdam
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A new global execution platform developed by ABN AMRO Clearing will provide clients with routing capabilities between Asia, US and Europe for equities and futures trading via a single FIX connection...