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MarkitServ and Swift combine forces for FX clearing
20 April 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

MarkitServ has teamed up with Swift to deliver trades from Swift to FX CCPs, via MarkitServ’s FX clearing gateway...

Nigerian Stock Exchange on the cusp of short selling
19 April 2012 Lagos
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In just three weeks, Nigeria's Stock Exchange will finish its alterations to relax restrictions on price swings, adopt the Nasdaq platform, open into US trading hours and allow short selling...

New prime brokerage mandate for Citi
19 April 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Citigroup has been appointed by Adelante Asset Management, the emerging markets hedge fund manager based in the UK, to provide prime brokerage...

Haitong re-launch IPO to expand Chinese sec lending
19 April 2012 Hong Kong
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Haitong Securities, a Chinese brokerage company has re-launched its Hong Kong IPO to raise up to $1.77 billion...

LCH.Clearnet broadens range of collateral
19 April 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

LCH.Clearnet will accept Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities in an effort to widen their existing collateral range...

$39 million increase in sec lending revenue for BlackRock
19 April 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Investment advisory, administration fees and securities lending revenue of $2 billion in first quarter 2012 remained about equal to first quarter 2011...

Rick Enfield new executive director at Omgeo
17 April 2012 Boston
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Omgeo announced the appointment of Rick Enfield as executive director of ProtoColl product management...

SEC clamps down on naked short selling at optionsXpress
17 April 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The SEC charged an online brokerage and clearing agency, as well as four of the firm's officials and a customer, in an alleged naked short selling scheme...

Bank of Canada buys $1.34 billion of securities for one day
17 April 2012 Ottowa
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Bank of Canada bought C$1.34 billion ($1.34 billion) of securities for one day in order to achieve its overnight interest rate target of 1 per cent...

Thai broker KT ZMICO securities goes live with SunGard solution
17 April 2012 Bangkok
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Thai brokerage firm KT ZMICO Securities is live with SunGard’s Valdi trading in order to streamline its trading on the Thai Stock Exchange (SET)...

Spanish government bonds see ultra high securities lending fees
17 April 2012 Madrid
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Spanish ten-year government bond yields rose above 6 per cent on Monday for the first time since the beginning of December, leading analysts to warn that Madrid could fail to meet deficit targets...

BNY Mellon fined $6 million for misstating collateral
17 April 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNY Mellon was fined $6 million by the Federal Reserve Board for misstating the collateral it pledged to a government lending program in 2008...