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BBH announces sec lending rejig
05 March 2013 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is reorganising its securities lending business to meet the growth of its value lending programme...

Itaú BBA hires prime pair
05 March 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Brazilian bank Itaú BBA has recruited Kristen Dove and Ross Levin for its prime services division...

EquiLend partners with Finadium and FinTuition
05 March 2013 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

EquiLend University, the global training programme of EquiLend, will be run in partnership with Finadium in North America and FinTuition in EMEA and Asia...

Daily volume increases but repo drops at Eurex
04 March 2013 Franfurt
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Eurex Group has released its February 2013 figures, which show an increase in daily volume contracts but a decline in repo...

OneChicago Feb figures show impressive volume growth
04 March 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Jenna Jones

OneChicago witnessed its second best February in its history as securities futures volume for last month rose 219 percent year-on-year...

OCC witness securities lending rise but cleared contract decline
04 March 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Jenna Jones

OCC’s February figures show an increase in securities lending CCP activities but a decline in cleared contract volume...

Armstrong Investment Managers bags Newedge Prime employee
01 March 2013 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Armstrong Investment Managers has recruited Vincent Tournant as its COO. He arrives from Newedge Prime Brokerage, where he was global head of origination and structuring...

China opens up short selling for select brokerages
28 February 2013 Shanghai
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

China is expanding its short selling programme to allow brokerages to borrow shares from institutional investors, according to reports...

Staunton bags BNY Mellon role
27 February 2013 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Brian Staunton is joining BNY Mellon’s global collateral services business on 18 March. He will be based in London and will report to Ross Whitehill...

LCH.Clearnet LLC names new CEO
27 February 2013 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

LCH.Clearnet group has appointed David Weisbrod as CEO of its US subsidiary, LCH.Clearnet LLC, to oversee the continued expansion of its multi-national central counterparty clearing (CCP) business...

Italy bans short selling in bank shares after indecisive election
27 February 2013 Milan
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Italy’s financial markets regulator banned short selling of shares in major Italian banks after an election result caused shares in them to drop sharply...

Lombard Risk strengthens US market with two new hires
26 February 2013 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Lombard Risk Management has appointed Richard Ferrari as managing director in the Americas and Cliff van Tonder as director of global alliances...