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SGX to introduce circuit breakers

13 June 2013 Singapore
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Singapore Exchange is consulting the public on proposed circuit breakers for the securities market. Subject to regulatory approval and industry readiness, it plans to introduce them by the end of 2013...

UBS appoints ICSD for its investment bank business

11 June 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

UBS has appointed Clearstream as its primary International Central Securities Depository (ICSD), in a move that will consolidate the majority of its securities custody, settlement, and financing business...

The top five trends in prime brokerage

11 June 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Finadium and SunGard have identified five key trends in prime brokerage services and technology that they say are driving new approaches to client service to help firms achieve agile growth...

Mackenzie makes a beeline for Citi’s services

05 June 2013 Hong Kong and Singapore
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Mackenzie Investments has selected Citi to provide a complete suite of fund administration, middle office, collateral management and transfer agent services in support of its portfolio advisory and fund management activities in Asia...

May volume spikes for OneChicago

04 June 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

OneChicago, an equity finance exchange, announced May 2013 volume of 1,094,616, an increase of 322 percent compared with the same period in 2012...

OCC enjoys May increases

04 June 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

OCC's securities lending central counterparty activities saw a 46 percent increase in new loans over May 2012 with 121,016 transactions last month...

BNY Mellon expands bilateral margining

03 June 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNY Mellon has ramped up its DM Edge product in the wake of recommendations from the Federal Reserve bank...

4sight updates collateral optimisation system

29 May 2013 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

4sight Financial Software has added a range of new features to its collateral optimisation system...

'No evidence' of widespread collateral shortfall, says BIS

29 May 2013 Basel
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

There is no evidence or expectation of any lasting or widespread scarcity of collateral in global financial markets, according to a Bank for International Settlements report...

Naked short selling case could go to federal court

28 May 2013 New Jersey
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit will decide whether a case alleging Merrill Lynch & Co, Knight Capital Americas, UBS Securities and others engaged in manipulative naked short selling should be heard in state or federal court...

KPMG selects SunGard’s Adaptiv Analytics

28 May 2013 Berlin
Reporter: Jenna Jones

KPMG in Germany has chosen SunGard’s Adaptiv Analytics to help clients with assessments of credit valuation adjustments (CVA) under Basel III...

Real estate fund increases revolving credit facility to $60 million

24 May 2013 Newton
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

RMR Real Estate Income Fund (RIF) increased its revolving credit facility with BNP Paribas Prime Brokerage by $10 million to $60 million...

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