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Deutsche fills prime brokerage role
03 July 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Piers Murray will be Deutsche Bank's global head of fixed income prime brokerage in markets clearing and will report to Jon Hitchon, the head of markets clearing...

OneChicago nets June record
03 July 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Equity finance exchange OneChicago’s trading volume reached 868,512 in June—a 334 percent increase on May—making it the exchange’s highest monthly volume total since February 2007...

OCC’s securities lending volume rises
03 July 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

OCC’s cleared contract volume declined 6 percent in the first half of 2012, but its securities lending volume rose 15 percent...

Ex-UBS exec to head prime services at RBS
02 July 2012 Hong Kong
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

David Gray will be the new head of prime services and client execution for Asia-Pacific at the Royal Bank of Scotland. His appointment to this role, which has been specifically created...

Banco de la Nación Argentina is latest Lombard client
29 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Banco de la Nación Argentina New York (BNA NY), a branch of Banco de la Nación Argentina (BNA), has chosen Lombard Risk to meet compliance requirements...

J.P. Morgan polishes up collateral management in Japan
29 June 2012 Tokyo
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

J.P.Morgan Worldwide Securities Services has updated its collateral management platform in Japan...

Street gets new role at Citi
28 June 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Citi has made Richard Street the EMEA head of client sales management for investors...

Ratings impact on Coast collateral agreement
28 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Fitch ratings has declared that a proposed change to the Coast Collateral Management Agreement (CMA), in which the CDO asset management responsibilities for the transaction...

BlackRock reinforces sec lending regulation
28 June 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

At the end of 2011, it was reported that BlackRock’s iShares ETFs lent out on average 92 percent of the securities that they held...

BNY Mellon launches Global Collateral Services
27 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BNY Mellon has formed Global Collateral Services to serve broker dealers and institutional investors with collateral management needs...

Credit Suisse moves one more from Asia-Pacific
26 June 2012 Hong Kong
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

It has been reported that Benjamin Happ, former head of capital services at Asia-Pacific, will be moved to the Boston offices of Credit Suisse...

Nigeria releases guidelines on sec lending
26 June 2012 Nigeria
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released guidelines on foreign participation in securities lending. A letter from the bank addressed to all authorised dealers, custodians...