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Fraud rumours send Mindray Medical rocketing
17 January 2014 Beijing
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Whisperings of fraud are continuing to distress Mindray Medical, with a high amount of the Chinese firm’s stock having been borrowed since October...

BCS hires John Barker from Liquidnet
16 January 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BCS, the trader of equities and FX on the Russian exchange, has appointed John Barker as executive chairman of BCS Financial Group in London. Barker started his new role at BCS in January 2014...

Collateral management systems made defunct
16 January 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Interactive Data Corporation and Matrix Applications have agreed to provide data and tools to help asset managers to navigate the process of margining forward-settling trades...

Michael Messinger rejoins Maxim Group
15 January 2014 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Maxim Group has hired Michael Messinger as an executive managing director and co-head of the fixed income group...

Anticipated €50bn cash-flow drag from FTT
15 January 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

There will be an estimated an annual cash-flow drag of €30–50 billion resulting from the Financial Transaction Tax, suggested a report...

Eurex broadens collateral reach
14 January 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Eurex Clearing has extended its collateral services by providing direct connectivity into Clearstream’s triparty collateral management service (the global liquidity hub)...

Alexandra Ricciardi wields collateral expertise at BNP Paribas
14 January 2014 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNP Paribas Securities Services has hired Alexandra Ricciardi to extend the firm’s collateral franchise to North America...

Matteo Cassina joins Saxo Bank
13 January 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Prime brokerage veteran Matteo Cassina has joined Saxo Bank in a push to expand the bank’s growth within the institutional space...

Clearstream's GSF rises 7 percent
13 January 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream’s global securities financing (GSF) services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, increased by 7 percent year-on-year, the company reported...

Short sellers were early indication of 2008 crisis
10 January 2014 Dallas
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Actions of short sellers likely provided an early warning of banks’ upcoming distress prior to the 2008 crisis, an academic study has suggested...

BNY/CIBC Mellon merger formalises new roles
10 January 2014 Toronto
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Three months after BNY Mellon and CIBC Mellon created a lending giant with the merger of their two desks, Phil Zywot and his team have formally become BNY Mellon employees from 1 January 2014...

Lending transactions rise for Brazil’s stock exchange
09 January 2013 São Paulo
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In 2013, securities lending transactions at BM&FBOVESPA reached a new milestone with a financial volume of BRL 1 trillion with 1,693,151 trades...