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Citi sets up securities lending in LA
04 January 2012 New York
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Citi has opened a securities lending office in Los Angeles to expand its OpenLend presence...

OCC stock loan program up in 2011
04 January 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Anna Reitman

OCC's total cleared contract volume in 2011 reached 4.6 billion contracts, a 17 percent increase over the 2010 volume, marking the ninth consecutive year of record volume for the clearer...

Eurex Group reports 2011 trading volumes
03 January 2011 Frankfurt
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Total trading volume at Eurex Group in 2011 was at 2.8 billion contracts in 2011 with average daily volume of 11.1 million contracts, an increase of 7 per cent over last year...

Norwegian banks fined for short selling violations
02 January 2012 Oslo
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Norway's economic crime prosecutor has fined four finance companies NOK400,000 (€51,586) for allowing shares to be sold short before they were eligible for trading...

Bio-med firm takes on short sellers
02 January 2012 Los Angeles
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Ampio pharmaceuticals believes that increased volatility and volume in its common stock was a result of factually inaccurate and purposely misleading information being published on the internet...

Ireland's central bank lifts ban on short selling
02 January 2012 Dublin
Reporter: Anna Reitman

The Central Bank of Ireland has announced the end of the ban on short selling of certain financial instruments, which has been in place since September 2008...

More securities lending info required - Fed
30 December 2011 New York
Reporter: Anna Reitman

More data is required to monitor repo and securities lending markets to inform policy makers and researchers about firm-level and systemic risk, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...

Options trader pays $2mn for illegal short selling
29 December 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Anna Reitman

An options trader in the Chicago area agreed to pay more than $2 million to settle SEC charges alleging he violated the "locate" and "close out" requirements of RegSHO...

NYSE reports December drop in short interest
29 December 2011 New York
Reporter: Anna Reitman

NYSE Group reported short interest as of mid-December fell to 13.5 billion shares, which represents about 3.5 per cent of total shares outstanding...

Russia's CSD launches securities lending
29 December 2011 Moscow
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Russia's National Settlement Depository (NSD) concluded its first transaction as a securities lending agent between a brokerage firm and bank...

FINRA fines Credit Suisse $1.75mn
28 December 2011 Washington
Reporter: Anna Reitman

FINRA has announced that it has fined Credit Suisse $1.75 million for violating RegSHO and failing to properly supervise short sales of securities and marking of sale orders. ...

Data Explorers reveals top 15 shorts of 2011
28 December 2011 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

MF Global tops the list of shorted stocks in a look back at a year of market turmoil and underperformance...