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J.P. Morgan adds hires in Asia Pacific
04 August 2011 Sydney
Reporter: Anna Reitman

J.P. Morgan has announced new appointments to its financing and market products (FMP) group in Asia Pacific...

SocGen shares suspended after Greek write down
03 August 2011 Paris
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Societe Generale has announced its results for the second quarter of 2011, and the first six months of the year...

OneChicago announces July volumes
03 August 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Anna Reitman

OneChicago has announced that a total of 115,974 security futures contracts were traded in the month of July 2011...

OCC's securities lending up 24%
02 August 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Anna Reitman

New loan activity increased 24 per cent, or over 67,000 contracts in July compared to the same month last year, said Chicago-based Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)...

BofAML scoops JP Morgan's head of derivatives
02 August 2011 New York
Reporter: Anna Reitman

In a further move to raise the profile of its management team, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML) hired Peter Johnson, head of JP Morgan Chase & Co global futures, options and over-the-counter clearing operations...

Eurex Group sets new records in July
02 August 2011 Frankfurt
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume (ADV) of 10 million contracts in July, a 24 per cent increase from the same period last year...

EXCLUSIVE: McKenna joins Merlin Institutional Group
01 August 2011 San Francisco
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Industry veteran to enhance institutional sales in New York and Boston.......

First Middle East triparty cash repo trade settled
01 August 2011 Luxembourg
Reporter: Anna Reitman

The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) is the first Middle East financial institution accepting local counterparties as cash takers and Middle East assets, such as sovereign and corporate bonds out of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) area, as collat

KAS Bank securities lending head quits
01 August 2011 Amsterdam
Reporter: Anna Reitman

KAS Bank will lose the head of its securities lending team, Mun Yoshihara, who will be leaving at the end of this week and moving back to Tokyo, Japan...

Markets stabilise on US debt deal hopes, downgrade still haunts
01 August 2011 New York
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Shares rallied on Monday after President Obama announced a deal on raising the US debt ceiling, still to be passed by the Senate...

BATS Europe offers multilateral clearing choice
30 July 2011 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

BATS Europe has launched Preferred Interoperable Clearing, which provides its trading participants the choice of a preferred clearer from three interoperating clearing counterparties (CCPs), effective immediately........

US crisis hits securities lending
29 July 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The ongoing budget crisis in Washington is having serious effects on the securities lending market, and although a default is still considered unlikely, the fragile confidence of participants could be hit further in the event of a ratings downgrade..