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UK bans short selling in Portuguese bank shares
05 July 2013 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The shares of three Portuguese banks were banned from short selling in the UK on 4 July. The Financial Conduct Authority imposed the ban, which was in force between 8am and 11.59pm, because of the volatility of recent trading...

ESMA vice-chair to stick around
04 July 2013 Paris
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The European Securities and Markets Authority’s board of supervisors has re-elected Carlos Tavares as its vice chair...

Three custodian banks face ratings review
03 July 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BNY Mellon, State Street and Northern Trust are facing reviews of their long-term ratings because of narrow margins in core custody services and an over reliance on ancillary services such as securities lending, according to Moody’s...

June highs and lows at Eurex
03 July 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

As a group, Eurex international derivatives exchanges averaged a daily volume of 10.8 million contracts in June. This was down slightly from 11 million in 2012...

OneChicago Q2 trading volume soars
02 July 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Jenna Jones

One Chicago’s trading volume for Q2 2013 has increased 80 percent year-on-year with volume of 780,133 for June 2013...

OCC stock loan activity up 28 percent
02 July 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Jenna Jones

OCC’s year-to-date stock loan activity is up 28 percent from 2012 with 638,520 new loan transactions in 2013. The average daily loan value at OCC in June was $56,188,067,455...

Chris Chanod joins PrimeOne Solutions
01 July 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

PrimeOne Solutions has recruited Chris Chanod as global head of sales and business development. He was previously director of prime finance sales in the global markets business at Citi...

Rule Financial expands in Poland and New York
01 July 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Rule Financial, an independent provider of business consultancy and IT services to investment banks, has announced year-on-year growth...

Olivetree extends branch to SunGard
01 July 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Olivetree Financial Group has selected SunGard’s Astec Analytics to provide the users of its OTAS platform with faster, more comprehensive securities lending data...

Greece may be back in the short selling game
01 July 2013 Athens
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

It has been reported that Greece's capital markets regulator will lift a short selling ban now that the country's major banks have been recapitalised...

BMO adds to lending team with Jhangiani
01 July 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BMO Global Asset Management has expanded its securities lending group with the addition of LJ Jhangiani as a director and senior securities lender/trader from Allstate Investments...

Stock up your collateral larder, says SunGard
28 June 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Establishing a global inventory is a vital first step down the road to collateral optimisation, said SunGard in a recent whitepaper...