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New report argues in favour of naked shorting
29 July 2013 Texas
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Accounting fundamentals are highly significant in explaining naked short sales, according to a recent study...

Traiana packs and parcels first inter-dealer trade
29 July 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The first inter-dealer non-deliverable forward trade has been delivered to LCH.Clearnet’s ForexClear service through the recently established link with Traiana’s Harmony CCP Connect...

Singapore and Japan cross collateral borders
26 July 2013 Tokyo
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Bank of Japan and the Monetary Authority of Singapore have established a cross-border collateral arrangement that lets foreign banks in Singapore get their hands on local dollars by using Japanese government bonds as collateral...

Prosecutor going after SAC hints at more to come
26 July 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A federal grand jury has charged SAC Capital, a US hedge fund, over alleged insider trading. Eight individuals have also been charged so far, with six pleading guilty, according to a New York district attorney...

Citi adds another for Russian equities
25 July 2013 Moscow
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Citi has appointed Yuri Aldakimov as Moscow equity trading head of Citigroup Global Markets...

DTCC takes full control of Omgeo
24 July 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation is taking full control of post-trade services provider Omgeo after agreeing to acquire Thomson Reuters’s 50 percent stake in the company...

European CSDs to settle down early
24 July 2013 Brussels
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Euroclear’s central securities depositories in Belgium, France and the Netherlands will settle all transactions on a T+2 basis from October 2014...

Citi's Hong Kong director of equity lending departs
24 July 2013 Hong Kong
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Citi’s director of equity lending in Hong Kong has left the bank, a source has confirmed. Henry Lee reportedly quit...

SimCorp teams up with AcadiaSoft for collateral management
24 July 2013 Copenhagen
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Investment management solutions company SimCorp and AcadiaSoft, a provider of margin automation for counterparties engaged in collateral management, have entered into a product partnership...

Deutsche Bank recruits Andrew Cheng for agent lending
23 July 2013 Hong Kong
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Deutsche Bank has appointed Andrew Cheng to the role of regional product head for agency securities lending in Asia Pacific. He will be based in Hong Kong...

Low lending revenue offsets good quarter for BNY Mellon
23 July 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Investment services fees for BNY Mellon's second quarter of this year totalled $1.7 billion, an increase of 4 percent year-over-year...

Guy Eden joins Traiana for equity expertise
22 July 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Traiana, a provider of pre-trade risk and post-trade processing solutions, has appointed Guy Eden as head of product management...