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Citi extends securities lending services to Malaysia
21 November 2012 Kuala Lumpur
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Citi now offers securities lending services in Malaysia through its OpenLend platform. The new service will allow offshore and domestic investors access to the Malaysian market...

Thomson Reuters launches StarMine
20 November 2012 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Thomson Reuters has released a new model that assesses the activities of short sellers in the US equity markets and could help to generate alpha...

J.P. Morgan waves goodbye to triparty repo intraday credit exposure
19 November 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

More than a third of J.P. Morgan’s intraday credit exposure that it experiences during the unwinding of triparty repos has been eliminated as the firm implements market reforms...

Pakistan ponders intraday short-selling
19 November 2012 Karachi
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A meeting whose attendees included the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) discussed allowing intraday short-selling, but reached no final decision...

RBS hires new head of prime services
16 November 2012 Connecticut
Reporter: Jenna Jones

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has appointed Jeffrey Howard as head of prime services for the Americas, based in Stamford, Connecticut.

First female chair for European Federation for Retirement Provision
16 November 2012 Dublin
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Joanne Segars, chief executive of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), has been elected as chair of the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP)...

CCPs do not conform
15 November 2012 Concord
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The heterogeneous nature and diverse ownership of central counterparties (CCPs) worldwide mean that they do not conform with regulatory initiatives to impose a single framework for operations and risk management, according to a new report...

Citi opens securities lending trading desk in Dublin
14 November 2012 Dublin
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Citi has opened a securities lending trading desk in Dublin, as it expands its OpenLend capabilities in key cities and regions around the world...

Canada to expand accepted securities for lending
14 November 2012 Toronto
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Securities lenders and borrowers in Canada will soon be able to trade any trust that is listed on a stock exchange after the country’s minister of finance, Jim Flaherty, tabled a motion to implement outstanding technical tax amendments...

US digs in heels for Basel III
13 November 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SIFMA released a statement saying that the 1 January 2013 effective date of Basel III capital rules would be pushed back....

Andrew Jamieson joins BlackRock
13 November 2012 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

The former head of equity finance at J.P. Morgan, Andrew Jamieson, has joined the iShares capital markets division of BlackRock as managing director...

Retirement plan suing Wells Fargo over securities lending
12 November 2012 Nebraska
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

It has been reported that the Nebraska Public Power District Employees Retirement Plan (NPPD) is suing Wells Fargo over claims that the bank misinformed it about the risks of a securities lending programme...