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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.

Optimism about Securities Lending in the Middle East
16 November 2010 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Data Explorers: The climax to the F1 season in Abu Dhabi was preceded by the 2010 Middle East Securities Finance Forum in Dubai. Recent announcements from the Qatar and UAE Stock Exchanges that they would attempt to introduce securities lending and..

EquiLend sign up Daiwa Capital Markets
15 November 2010 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Daiwa Capital Markets ("Daiwa"), one of Japan’s leading investment banks, has signed up to use EquiLend services in Japan.

Algorithmics enhances Algo Risk Service
15 November 2010 Toronto
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

Algorithmics, has announced that it has enhanced the customization capability of its award winning Algo Risk Service, a hosted risk management, portfolio analytics and decision support tool, by adding eight new service extensions.

ITG hire minder
12 November 2010 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Investment Technology Group, Inc, have announced that Minder Cheng has been appointed to its Board of Directors.