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Morgan Stanley talk tri-party at Capitol Hill
07 August 2012 Washington D.C.
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A committee on securities, insurance and investment met to conduct a hearing entitled “The Tri-Party Repo Market: Remaining Challenges” in Capitol Hill, Washington D.C...

European repo market sidelined
06 August 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The European Repo Council of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) today released the results of its 23rd semi-annual survey of the European repo market...

Boston Prime partners with Tradency
03 August 2012 Boston
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Boston Prime, a FX prime brokerage has partnered with Tradency, the developer of Mirror Trader, to offer trading technology to Boston Prime's FX prime brokerage customer base...

Swinburne retires from Citi
03 August 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

It has been reported that Neil Swinburne, head of European securities lending trading at Citi’s prime broking arm, has resigned. Swinburne joined Citigroup in April 2006...

Internationals drop and equity ascends at Eurex
03 August 2012 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In July 2012, the international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 8.1 million contracts, a drop from the 10.1 million seen year-on-year...

OneChicago surpasses 2011 block trading volume
02 August 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Equity finance exchange OneChicago’s block trading volume in the first seven months of 2012 surpassed more than 2.5 million contracts, exceeding all blocks activity in 2011...

OCC sees rise in July 2012 securities lending volume
02 August 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

OCC’s securities lending central counterparty activities saw a 19 percent increase in July 2012 when compared to the same period in 2011, with 80,674 new transactions...

Bombay Stock Exchange bans 52 stocks from sec lending
01 August 2012 Mumbai
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Bombay Stock Exchange has excluded 52 stocks from securities borrowing and lending trades. The ban will begin on September 28...

Lombard Risk bags another three
31 July 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Lombard Risk Management has secured three new contracts for its Colline collateral management software and its COREP programme...

Fidelity Capital Markets to release a prime brokerage pricing service
30 July 2012 Boston
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Institutional trading firm Fidelity Capital Markets is preparing to launch a securities lending pricing service that could make the market more transparent for its clients...

Moody's gets negative over ESMA guidelines
30 July 2012 Paris
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The European Securities and Markets Authority’s UCITS guidelines are “credit negative for asset managers”, according to the ratings agency Moody’s...

Rule Financial snaps up Tomkinson
30 July 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Rule Financial has recruited former Citi, LCH.Clearnet and Nomura International employee James Tomkinson as a domain specialist in OTC clearing and collateral management...