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IMN Austin: beneficial owners slow to change

28 January 2014 Austin
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Technology and legal requirements have come on in leaps and bounds since the 1990s, but beneficial owners are not taking advantage of new processes available to them, according to panellists at the IMN conference...

A good year for State Street

27 January 2014 London
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

State Street’s chairman has said that its results for 2014 show that the business remains strong despite the difficult financial climate.

Collateral smarts lacking, finds Clearstream

27 January 2014 Luxembourg
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Financial institutions need to smarten up when it comes to their collateral management operations, according to Clearstream’s Stefan Lepp...

Bill Locke joins eSecLending

24 January 2014 Boston
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

Securities lending agent eSecLending, has recruited Bill Locke as head of market and credit risk management...

SGX to introduce circuit breakers

24 January 2014 Singapore
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

Singapore Exchange will introduce circuit breakers in the securities market from 24 February as an additional market safeguard...

DTCC outlines margin concerns

24 January 2014 New York
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has said that financial firms could face significant cost, risk and operational challenges managing margin requirements in the years ahead...

ECB liquidity inspires drop in European repo

23 January 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

There has been a sharp drop-off in the size of the European repo market since June 2013, said a recent survey...

GSF: Collateral likes to move it move it

22 January 2014 Luxembourg
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Collateral mobilisation is becoming increasingly important to the financial markets, according to an expert speaking at the 18th Global Securities Finance Summit in Luxembourg...

Touch technology firm sees short interest rise

22 January 2013 California
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A new entrant in SunGard Astec Analytic’s top ten stocks from a securities lending focus, InvenSense saw its share price make good gains in the week of 13 January ahead of its upcoming earnings results...

Euroclear states that its figures "eclipse" rivals

21 January 2014 Brussels
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Average daily collateral outstanding on Euroclear’s global collateral highway climbed from €700 billion at the end of 2012 to over €787 billion at the end of 2013, with peaks of up to €830 billion in the second half of the year...

Investor exodus from macro funds

17 January 2014 London
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

A new report suggests that investors have abandoned macro funds in 2013 as higher-risk alternatives proved to be more profitable...

BoE to make borrowing easier for banks

17 January 2014 London
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

The Bank of England has launched new indexed long-term repo operations (ILTR), which it believes will help to provide liquidity insurance to the banking system...

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