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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...

Roberto Colapinto to join CACEIS
28 June 2013 Luxembourg
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

CACEIS has appointed Roberto Colapinto as head of regional coverage, in charge of Southern European and Latin American clients...

BNP Paribas Securities Services accesses collateral
27 June 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNP Paribas Securities Services has launched its integrated collateral management solution, Collateral Access, for both the buy and sell sides...

SGSS picks up South African mandate
27 June 2013 South Africa
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) in South Africa has been mandated by Trifecta Capital Services to provide custody services...

'Naked shorting is like terrorism' complaint lands on SEC's desk
26 June 2013 Waco, Texas
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

An illegal short-selling complaint has been made to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by Life Partners Holdings’s CEO Brian Pardo...

CalPERS promotes Baggesen and Bienvenue
26 June 2013 Sacramento
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has promoted Eric Baggesen to the role of the pension fund’s senior investment officer for asset allocation and risk management...

BNY Mellon receives key collateral patent
26 June 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BNY Mellon has been awarded a US patent for a process enabling the secure management of collateral between counterparties via its Margin DIRECT service...

IOSCO addresses impact of ETF regulation on lending
25 June 2012 Madrid
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Large ETF providers in some jurisdictions have substantially increased the disclosure to investors regarding the collateral held and the use of securities lending, as well as the management of counterparty risk, said IOSCO...

Maxim hires Magnani to expand prime sales
25 June 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Maxim Group has hired Frank Magnani as managing director of the firm’s global prime brokerage sales...

Mitsubishi will add lending to Butterfield Fulcrum
24 June 2013 Hamilton
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUTB) is to acquire Butterfield Fulcrum, promising that securities lending will be added to the fund administrator...