News search | Securities Finance Times

Generic business image for news articles

EquiLend's Trade Optimisation keeps on rising
05 March 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

EquiLend's Trade Optimisation keeps on rising....

New high for BondLend
02 March 2012 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

BondLend has announced record trading for the month of February 2012. The 45 per cent year on year growth is attributed to increased participation across North America and Europe...

Eurex Group reports February trading volumes
02 March 2012 Frankfurt
Reporter: Anna Reitman

In February 2012, the international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 8.7 million contracts...

OneChicago posts February figures
02 March 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Anna Reitman

OneChicago has announced that EFPs and blocks in February 2012 came in at 204,835 traded representing more than $1.3 billion in notional value...

Clearstream and ISS launch proxy voting services
02 March 2012 Luxembourg
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Clearstream and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) have launched a service which will allow customers to manage meetings for assets in the securities lending programme and vote on positions pledged as collateral...

OCC securities lending up 7% in February
02 March 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Anna Reitman

OCC's stock loan program, including OTC and AQS, saw a seven per cent increase in new loan activity with 68,820 new loan transactions in February....

Clearstream and BNP Paribas team up
29 February 2012 Luxembourg
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Clearstream and BNP Paribas Securities Services (BNP Paribas) have signed a letter of intent to intensify their cooperation on collateral management...

Rule Financial announces senior hires
29 February 2012 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Rule Financial has made a number of senior hires to support its growing business...

AIG's securities lending bailout portfolio closes
29 February 2011 New York
Reporter: Anna Reitman

The New York Fed has announced the sale of the remaining securities in the Maiden Lane II portfolio, generating a net $2.8 billion gain for the benefit of the public...

Greece taxes OTC securities lending
28 February 2012 Athens
Reporter: Anna Reitman

The Greek parliament has voted a new tax of 0.2 per cent on OTC securities lending transactions that settle in the local CSD...

NYSE Group and NASDAQ report February short interest
27 February 2012 New York
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Short interest was relatively flat for NYSE and NASDAQ though NYSE Amex saw an increase for the two-week period to 15 February....

ICMA's Paris office gets new director
24 February 2012 Paris
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Nicholas Pfaff has joined ICMA as a director in the Market Practice and Regulatory Policy department to strengthen the team in the association's Paris office...