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Citi revamps collateral custody accounts

09 April 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Citi has expanded its Citi OpenInvestor suite of investment services to include segregated collateral custody accounts. The new accounts are hoped to help clients better mitigate counterparty risk...

ICMA: “Repo should be exempt from FTT”

09 April 2013 Reading
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The proposed EU Financial Transaction Tax would cause the short-term repo market in Europe to contract by an estimated amount of at least 66 percent...

Itaú BBA sees a future with 4sight

09 April 2013 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Itaú BBA has selected 4sight’s securities finance and collateral management solution to support its US based securities lending and repo business, Itaú BBA USA Securities...

Good and bad news for Clearstream’s global securities financing

08 April 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

For its Global Securities Financing services, Clearstream recorded a monthly average outstanding volume of €576.2 billion for March 2013...

Q1 volume up 67 percent for OneChicago

02 April 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Jenna Jones

OneChicago’s Q1 trading volume has increased 67 percent compared with 2012...

OCC on track with sec lending CCP activity

02 April 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

OCC's securities lending CCP activities saw a 15 percent increase in new loans over March 2012 with 95,686 transactions last month...

Calypso Technology opens in Madrid

27 March 2013 San Francisco
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Calypso Technology, a treasury and capital markets software provider, has opened an office in Madrid, Spain, to service the Spanish and Portuguese markets...

Fake pilots, thrown phones, and 8 other reasons to short a stock

26 March 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SunGard's Astec Analytics has rounded up what it considers to be the ten hottest stocks from a securities lending perspective...

Rule Financial makes expansion in Poland

20 March 2013 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Rule Financial has opened a new development centre in Poznań, Poland, in response to increasing client demand for complex systems development and integration...

Markit rolls out triparty repo data

19 March 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Markit Securities Finance is seeking to capitalise on the $10 trillion repo market, with the expansion of its content and analytical services to include US dollar triparty repo transactions...

European clearinghouses merge to form new CCP

14 March 2013 Amsterdam
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Pan-European cash equities clearinghouses EMCF and EuroCCP will combine to form a new central counterparty (CCP)...

ConvergEx Prime Services to do more capital introductions

14 March 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

ConvergEx Prime Services is expanding its capital introduction programme to make the most of 2013 for its clients...

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