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Front office the way forward
28 May 2014 Boston
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Evolution towards the front office has been identified as one of the main trends for efficient collateral management across global market participants in a survey by Sapient Global Markets...

UBS restricts ETF securities lending
28 May 2014 Zürich
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

UBS has limited the amount of securities that its equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can lend out...

OTAS Technologies makes sales hire
27 May 2014 New York
Reporter: Tammy Facey

OTAS Technologies has expanded its US sales team with the addition of Jennifer Martyn...

Deutsche Bank expands in Vietnam
27 May 2014 Vietnam
Reporter: Tammy Facey

Deutsche Bank has appointed Jens Reubbert as head of global transaction banking in Vietnam and chief country officer...

LCH Clearnet adds to board of directors
27 May 2014 London
Reporter: Tammy Facey

Jonathan Eliot will join the board of directors of LCH. Clearnet as a non-director...

Bond ETFs aren’t cheap to borrow, finds Markit
23 May 2014 London
Reporter: Tammy Facey

Bond exchange-traded funds are among the most expensive to borrow in the US ETF market, according to Markit Securities Finance...

SGX and Clearstream: the right collateral is priority
23 May 2014 Asia Pacific
Reporter: Tammy Facey

Sourcing the right collateral is an increasing priority for the financial industry in Asia, according to the results of a poll conducted at the 5th Global Securities Financing Conference Asia...

ConvergEx to use Liquid platform
23 May 2014 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Liquid Holdings Group has signed a joint marketing agreement with ConvergEx Prime Services LLC, the prime services division of ConvergEx Group LLC...

Regulatory uncertainty threatens systems
22 May 2014 Paris
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The unclear regulatory landscape is the biggest challenge cited by banks in implementing their counterparty risk and credit valuation adjustment (CVA) platforms, according to a whitepaper by InteDelta and Murex...

APAC-wide study shows automation processes vary
22 May 2014 Asia Pacific
Reporter: Tammy Facey

A new study has revealed the disparities in post-trade processes across the Asia Pacific region...

Doran Jones continues to build testing practice
22 May 2014 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Geordie Keitt has joined consultancy Doran Jones’s growing testing practice in New York...

FSOC: more triparty protection needed
21 May 2014 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Additional steps may need to be taken to further increase triparty repo borrowers’ protection against funding runs in the broader context of liquidity regulation, according to the US Treasury’s Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)...