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Citi win City of Fort Worth securities lending mandate
10 May 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Citi have been awarded a mandate to provide third-party securities lending to the City of Fort Worth, Texas....

Egypt to launch ETFs and short selling
10 May 2011 Cairo
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The Egyptian Stock Exchange is to launch exchange traded funds and allow short selling in an attempt to boost liquidity in the market at a time of political unrest, said the bourse's chairman Mohamed Abd El Salam...

Deutsche prime finance head joins DTCC board
10 May 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Jonathan W. Hitchon, co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Global Prime Finance business, has been elected to the Board of Directors of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).

ISE elects new member to board of directors
09 May 2011 New York
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

ISE has elected Stanley Choung to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Choung, managing director of the Institutional Equity Division for Morgan Stanley, will serve as an industry director representing ISE’s Primary Market Makers (PMMs)..

Clearstream’s April 2011 figures
09 May 2011 Luxembourg
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

In April 2011, the value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers registered an increase of four per cent to €11.3 trillion (compared to €10.9 trillion in April 2010)...

Securities lending legend Slater becomes global head
09 May 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, has announced that James Slater will become Global Head of Securities Lending following the retirement of Kathy Rulong on July 1, 2011.

Citi unveils SRI securities lending solution
06 May 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Citi has added socially responsible investment solutions to its securities lending cash collateral investment programme...

Data Explorers and Nasdaq launch optimised index
05 May 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The NASDAQ OMX Group and Data Explorers have launched the NASDAQ-100 Data Explorers Optimised Index (NASDAQ:NDXOPT)...

OneChicago unveils OCX.NoDivRisk
04 May 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Justin Lawson

OneChicago, LLC, has renamed one of its security futures products to OCX.NoDivRisk from OCX.NoDiv. The exchange believes the new identifier for the product suite, which removes dividend risk, better reflects its value to investors....

SEC seeks public comment on short sale disclosure
04 May 2011 Washington D.C.
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published on its website a request for public comment on the feasibility, benefits, and costs of two short selling disclosure regimes...

OneChicago reports April volume
04 May 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

OneChicago has reported that 331,209 security futures contracts traded at the exchange in April 2011...

NorthPoint prime services division enhances offering
04 May 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

NorthPoint's prime services and technologies business has enhanced its offering for traditional mutual funds that are looking to employ alternative investments, including trading in shorts, options and futures as part of their overall strategy...