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Agent lenders asked indemnification questions, says Finadium
24 January 2013 Concord
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Strong institutional participation, stabilised fee splits and concern over indemnification were just three of the trends that Finadium identified in its securities lending survey...

Two Vermuts and Ron Suber leave Wells Fargo to Prosper
23 January 2013 San Francisco
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Stephan Vermut, Aaron Vermut and Ron Suber have all left Wells Fargo to join the peer-to-peer financing platform Prosper...

Chilean brokerage house Banchile builds for the future
22 January 2013 São Paulo
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Banchile, Chile’s third largest brokerage house, has selected Fidessa’s Latin American sell-side trading platform to underpin its institutional trading activity...

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority recruits for equities
22 January 2013 Abu Dhabi
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has appointed Gregory Eckersley as global head of internal equities, effective immediately...

Eurex Repo to fund GC Pooling and Euro Repo markets
21 January 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Eurex Repo will extend the maximum term of tradable securities for the Eurex Repo markets such as GC Pooling and Euro Repo...

Swedish bonds are safest in the world, says ING
21 January 2013 Sweden
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

For default risks, ING Investment Management has judged the Swedish government bond market to be the safest bond market in the world...

Bas Cohen leaves ABN AMRO
18 January 2013 Amsterdam
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Bas Cohen has left ABN AMRO. A spokesperson said that Cohen, who was previously global head of trading, departed to pursue a career outside the bank...

RMA plays nice with FSB’s “shadow banking” recommendations
18 January 2013 Switzerland
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Committee on Securities Lending of the Risk Management Association has responded to the FSB on its proposals to toughen up regulation of “shadow banking”, praising the board’s efforts to understand the sector...

Clearstream and Belfius expand collateral services
18 January 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream and Belfius have agreed to develop exclusively a new collateral management activity for bilateral trades, focusing on over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and aimed primarily at corporates and medium-sized banks...

Albert Fried & Company opens new prime lending division
18 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Albert Fried & Company is expanding securities lending into a newly created prime lending services division...

BNY Mellon 4Q results reveal dip in securities lending revenue
17 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

While improvement in market values meant good news for BNY Mellon’s investment management, asset servicing, clearing and treasury services businesses, investment services fared slightly worse in the bank’s Q4 2012 results...

CSDs hold hands for collateral crunch
17 January 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Central securities depositories (CSDs) including ASX (Australia), Cetip (Brazil), Clearstream (Frankfurt/Luxembourg), Iberclear (Spain) and Strate (South Africa) have all teamed up and are encouraging other regions to join them in extending a global