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Major lifestyle brands top Hazeltree’s most crowded shorts for May

06 June 2025 US
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Extension of consumer spending is taking root across the globe, according to the Shortside Crowdedness Report

Global securities lending revenue up 7% YoY for May

05 June 2025 Global
Reporter: Daniel Tison

EquiLend Data & Analytics reports US$955 million in revenue for lenders for the month

Eurex Repo trading volumes up 29% YoY for May

04 June 2025 Europe
Reporter: Daniel Tison

This was driven by a 30 per cent YoY spike in GC Pooling average daily term-adjusted volume to €213.4 billion, and a 27 per cent YoY jump in special repo

BrokerTec reports 29% YoY rise in US repo ADNV for May

04 June 2025 US, Europe
Reporter: Daniel Tison

In the US repo market, May was BrokerTec’s second-best month on record, with ADNV of US$352 billion

OCC average daily loan value up 7.5% for May

04 June 2025 US
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Total securities lending transactions cleared on the OCC platform for the same month spiked 31.17 per cent YoY to 315,169

Sharegain launches securities lending offering for prime brokers

03 June 2025 UK
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Primelocate aims to address the observed need to increase volumes, reduce fails, and eliminate the ‘buy-to-lend’ practice

Securities lending revenues grow 12% YoY for May

03 June 2025 US
Reporter: Daniel Tison

S&P Global Market Intelligence reports revenues of US$1.202 billion for the month

CASLA: The role of data in securities finance has fundamentally changed

03 June 2025 Canada
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Market participants at this year’s 15th Annual Conference on Canadian Securities Lending discussed the role of data and the current performance of the market

EquiLend onboards Waddington

02 June 2025 UK
Reporter: Karl Loomes

Simon Waddington joins from the International Securities Lending Association, where he served as chief operating officer

ICMA to lead Project Guardian Fixed Income workstream

02 June 2025 Singapore
Reporter: Daniel Tison

ICMA’s leadership in this workstream will focus primarily on delivery versus payment settlement and custody arrangements for tokenised debt securities

RBC becomes first Canadian member of LCH CDSClear

30 May 2025 UK
Reporter: Karl Loomes

The move should allow the firm to benefit from margin and operational efficiencies across their CDS portfolio

RBC, TMX and Clearstream collaborate in triparty pledge solution

30 May 2025 Canada
Reporter: Karl Loomes

The move is seen as an important expansion of the Canadian Collateral Management Service into facilitating triparty pledge transaction in securities lending