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Citi wins Global X-Funds mandate
29 November 2010 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Citi has won a mandate to provide third-party securities lending services for Global X Funds’ family of exchange traded funds...

Knight Selects SunGard’s Apex
29 November 2010 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Knight Clearing Services LLC, a subsidiary of Knight Capital Group, Inc., has chosen SunGard’s Apex securities finance solution for international securities lending and repo processing...

Standard Chartered plans expansion
29 November 2010 Hong Kong
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Standard Chartered Bank says it plans a huge growth strategy in its trading and underwriting operations over the next three years, with almost 2,000 new hires.

Euroclear UK and Ireland and IFDS strengthen investment-fund processing
25 November 2010 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Euroclear and International Financial Data Services (IFDS) have announced that IFDS will use EUI to process its clients’ investment fund transactions...

Eurex Clearing, Eurex Repo and Clearstream to optimise use of collateral
24 November 2010 Luxembourg
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Eurex Clearing, Eurex Repo and Clearstream have announced that as of 26 November Eurex Clearing customers participating in the GC Pooling trading at Eurex Repo will be in a position to re-use GC Pooling collateral to fulfil their overall Eurex Cleari

BoA to launch Yuan prime brokerage services
23 November 2010 Shanghai
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Bank of America Merrill Lynch's prime brokerage has launched two Chinese yuan services in a move to attract more hedge fund business to the region...

Eurex to launch Canadian single stock future
23 November 2010 Frankfurt
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

Eurex, has announced that it will launch single stock futures on leading Canadian companies on 25 November 2010. The new listings reflect customer demand for expanded offerings in the rapidly growing equity derivatives segment.

BNY Mellon transacts $500m over EquiLend's Trade₂O Service
23 November 2010 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

EquiLend announced today that BNY Mellon utilized their service, Trade₂O, for over $500 million in trades last week of international equities.

BlackRock to build securities lending
22 November 2010 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

BlackRock is to launch a stock lending programme that will see 37 of its retail funds lend assets...

Stormont facilitates placement and securities lending agreements.
18 November 2010 Toronto
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

PharmaGap Inc. has completed a private offering of equity units (the "Units") in the amount of $572,000. Stormont facilitates placement and future securities lending agreements.

PPF to allow securities lending and repo
17 November 2010 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The UK's Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has updated its statement of investment principles, which will allow it to carry out securities lending and repo transactions...

Data Explorers launches securities lending quarterly reviews
17 November 2010 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Data Explorers to produce a 50 page Securities Lending Quarterly Review presenting a unique analysis of global securities lending activity in the major markets around the world.