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Intense market pressure fuels energy shorts

19 January 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Expectations for increased oil output following the lifting of Iran’s sanctions has put further pressure on oil prices and brought renewed vigor to short sellers targeting the beleaguered industry.

BlackRock enjoys Q4 sec lending boost

18 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BlackRock’s securities lending revenue grew by $20 million in Q4 2015...

Goldman Sachs fined for improper sec lending practices

15 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $15 million to settle charges of improper securities lending practices that violated federal regulations...

Overnight repo still shines

14 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

More than half of repo trades collateralised with US treasuries are overnight or open trades, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s survey...

Hedge fund performance down, says SS&C

14 January 2016 Connecticut
Reporter: Drew Nicol

SS&C GlobeOp’s Hedge Fund Performance Index reported that gross returns fell by 0.34 percent in December 2015, down from 0.21 percent in the previous month...

Clearstream sees December GSF dip

13 January 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Clearstream’s global securities financing services scored a monthly average outstanding of €542.1 billion in December 2015, but the figure was down on the previous year...

Hermes: Not all bad news in Chinese markets

12 January 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The market sell-off in China has led to a spike in short-term repo rates but, in the long term, “fundamental reform” is required in order to turn the jurisdictions fortunes around...

SFTR goes live today

12 January 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

New European regulations demanding greater transparency and more comprehensive reporting requirements for securities financing transactions will come into effect today...

Markit’s most shorted ahead of earnings

11 January 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Fastenal, Suedzucker and Cave Interactive are among the most shorted companies ahead of upcoming earnings announcements, according to Markit...

ESMA is short with national regulators

08 December 2015 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Only one in five EU national regulators is fully compliant with the Short Selling Regulation, according to a peer review by the European Securities and Markets Authority...

Options trades boosts CME’s December

08 January 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

CME Group’s options volume in December averaged 2.7 million contracts per day, up 3 percent over the same month in 2014...

OneChicago goes from strength to strength

07 January 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

OneChicago achieved its third consecutive record year, chalking up 7 percent volume growth in 2015...

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