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EquiLend and BNY Mellon team up to automate RQV communication
09 May 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Trading and post-trade service provider EquiLend will work with BNY Mellon to migrate the communication of Triparty Required Value (RQV) figures from email to an automated process using the company’s triparty automated deal matching (ADM) platform.

Moody’s: Merlin acquisition is risky business
09 May 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Credit ratings agency Moody’s Investor Service has reacted negatively to the Wells Fargo Securities acquisition of Merlin Securities LLC, a prime brokerage and technology provider based in San Francisco and New York...

Sweden’s NASDAQ collateral management shakeup
08 May 2012 Stockholm
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Sweden-based exchange and clearing company NASDAQ OMX Stockholm (OMX STO) set up three clearing funds to mutualise risk, and revised its collateral management structure so as not to rely too heavily on custodians that are also clearing members...

FinTuition launches new sec lending course
07 May 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The training company's new securities lending education programme, which is aimed at professionals who want to develop an understanding of the industry, will be taught online...

Singapore’s 2012 sec lending activity shows April increase
04 May 2012 Singapore
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Singapore Exchange has released its securities lending activity figures for April...

Pirum automates RQV processing
04 May 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Pirum will start phase 1 of its new Triparty Required Value processing service (RQV). This new functionality offers a single solution covering the calculation, agreement, and processing of daily RQVs...

Blossoming sales team at Tullip Tree
04 May 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

John Jones has been appointed international sales director for Tullip Tree Advisors...

J.P. Morgan undergoes senior reshuffle
03 May 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale and Georgina Lavers

J.P. Morgan has reportedly made two redundancies in its prime brokerage division, while Securities Lending Times has been told that there has been another cut in its equity finance division....

Eurex report sizeable growth for Euro repo market
03 May 2012 Zurich
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In April 2012, the international derivatives exchanges of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 10.9 million contracts, a 0.4 million increase year-on-year...

BNY Mellon updates collateral management platform
03 May 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNY Mellon is renovating its collateral management platform for institutional clients by introducing an online central messaging service allowing market participants to transmit margin calls...

OneChicago releases April 2012 trading volumes
02 May 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

OneChicago (OCX), an equity finance exchange, today announced that a total of 228,685 security futures contracts were traded in the month of April 2012...

34 per cent rise in securities lending for OCC
02 May 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

OCC announced that cleared contract volume reached 321.9 million contracts in April, a 5 per cent decrease from the April 2011 volume of 338.6 million contracts...