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Huettner joins securities finance platform BondLend
21 March 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Oscar Huettner has joined BondLend as Director and product manager. Huettner will join the fixed income securities finance platform in April and will report to BondLend’s CEO, Brian Lamb. He will be based out of the company’s New York Headquarter

Ratio of longs to shorts at a six year high
18 March 2011 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

New research from Data Explorers shows that the ratio of longs to shorts has hit a six year high...

New lending reporting solution from Northern Trust
18 March 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Northern Trust has created a report to assist insurance companies with regulatory filings on securities lending programmes...

Capco to develop hedge fund and prime services offering
18 March 2011 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Capco has appointed Gary Goldberg as a Director in the company’s UK Capital Markets team. Gary will focus on growing Capco’s presence in the hedge funds and prime services segments of this market.

Financial Markets cannot function effectively without short selling
17 March 2011 Data Explorers
Reporter: Justin Lawson

At the recent Data Explorers London Securities Financing Forum Will Duff Gordon hosted a panel of three short selling academics, unfortunately a journalist rather critical of short selling could not make the panel. Each academic made their case for

Senate to give new guidelines on securities lending
17 March 2011 Washington DC
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Two US government committee reports have published new guidelines on how securities lending should be explained and practiced in 401(k) plans...

Options Clearing Corporation rebrands
17 March 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Reflecting its more diverse suite of clearing solutions, The Options Clearing Corporation today has revised its brand identity and will now be known as OCC.

Conference report
16 March 2011 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The Data Explorers Securities Finance Forum took place in London on 16 March with an attendance of some of the major names in the securities lending industry...

Nomura quitting prime brokerage?
17 March 2011 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Nomura is scaling back its London prime brokerage team, with some insiders suggesting the bank will be withdrawing from the international market altogether...

Securities lending to go live in Pakistan
15 March 2011 Karachi
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The three Pakistani stock exchanges will be introducing a securities lending system from March 21...

Gar Wood launches new CBOE Brokerage Services unit
14 March 2011 New York
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

Gar Wood Securities, LLC taps options industry veterans Mark Oakley, Jeffery Fried and Steven Hessing to manage Gar Wood’s new CBOE Brokerage Services unit.

ASX and SGX to complete merger
11 March 2011 Singapore/Sydney
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The Board of Directors of Singapore Exchange has lodged a formal application to the Australian Foreign Investment Review Board about the proposed merger of SGX and ASX Limited...