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Fraud rumours send Mindray Medical rocketing

17 January 2014 Beijing
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Whisperings of fraud are continuing to distress Mindray Medical, with a high amount of the Chinese firm’s stock having been borrowed since October...

Clearstream's GSF rises 7 percent

13 January 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream’s global securities financing (GSF) services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, increased by 7 percent year-on-year, the company reported...

Short sellers were early indication of 2008 crisis

10 January 2014 Dallas
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Actions of short sellers likely provided an early warning of banks’ upcoming distress prior to the 2008 crisis, an academic study has suggested...

Lending transactions rise for Brazil’s stock exchange

09 January 2013 São Paulo
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In 2013, securities lending transactions at BM&FBOVESPA reached a new milestone with a financial volume of BRL 1 trillion with 1,693,151 trades...

Shorters circle around Western Asset Mortgage Capital

08 January 2014 Pasadena
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

According to reports, Zacks has recently downgraded Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corp (WMC) from neutral to underperform...

Utilisation of Twitter stays buoyant

08 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Utilisation levels for Twitter remain high after low trading levels in the Christmas month, SunGard reported...

OneChicago CEO cites securities lending in 2013 success

06 January 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

Equity finance exchange OneChicago has confirmed a December 2013 volume of 1,174,205 and a total volume of 9,515,194 for 2013...

Qatar CSD goes private

03 January 2014 Qatar
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Qatar central securities depository has been established as a Qatari private shareholding company...

OCC sees 8 percent increase in new loans

03 January 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

OCC's securities lending central counterparty activities saw an 8 percent increase in new loans from December 2012 with 93,274 transactions last month...

Eurex Repo reaches 222.6 billion

03 January 2013 London
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

Eurex Repo reached an average outstanding volume of €222.6 billion across all repo markets in 2013, down from 234.7 billion in 2012...

Clearing Corporation of India now a CCP

02 January 2014 Mumbai
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Reserve Bank has made the Clearing Corporation of India a qualified central counterparty...

Silvercorp fraud battle rages on

20 December 2013 British Columbia
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Jon Richard Carnes has been accused of committing fraud by the British Columbia Securities Commission, after he denounced Silvercorp on his blog and then made $2.8 million selling it short...

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