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Wells Fargo squares up to securities lending lawsuit
28 March 2012 Minnesota
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Institutional investors have filed a lawsuit against Wells Fargo, claiming that the bank miss-sold the safeness of its securities lending program...

Repo-to-maturity revamped by FASB, SEC
28 March 2012 Washington
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

An overhaul of the accounting rules that led to the collapse of MF Global could take place this year, said officials at FASB and SEC...

Pakistani stock exchange law approved by parliament
27 March 2012 Islamabad
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Stock Exchanges Law has finally been approved in a parliamentary session in Pakistan, after the bill was passed three years ago...

More short selling woes for Goldman Sachs
27 March 2012 California
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have joined recent claimants in suing Goldman Sachs over short selling...

Broadridge extends Gloss solution to include exchange-traded options
27 March 2012 Lake Success
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Broadridge Financial Solutions will expand the range of multi-asset processing capabilities of Gloss, its leading multi-currency trade processing and settlement solution...

SunGard launches new collateral management solution
26 March 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SunGard has added a cross-enterprise collateral management and optimization solution to its collateral management suite......

BNP Paribas SS wins French mandate
26 March 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNP Paribas Securities Services announced that it has won a new mandate from Fédéris Gestion d’Actifs to provide a suite of collateral management services, supporting the manager’s OTC derivatives activities...

Goldman Sachs accused of naked shorting
26 March 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A former hedge fund owner has added to testimony against Goldman Sachs in a case claiming the firm had practised naked shorting...

GlobeOp produces new SEC guidance
26 March 2012 London and NY
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Financial services company GlobeOp has offered insight on the US regulation Form PF ahead of its implementation deadline...

Clearstream and CDS in Canadian partnership
26 March 2012 Canada
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream and CDS Clearing and Depository Services have agreed to explore the possibility of a triparty collateral management service for Canada...

New head of prime brokerage for J.P. Morgan
26 March 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

J.P. Morgan has announced Lou Lebedin as its global head of prime brokerage...

Top 10 most borrowed US shares
23 March 2012 UK and US
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Data Explorers has released a list of the top 100 most borrowed shares in the US...