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BlackRock contests plumbers and pipefitters lawsuit

05 February 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A lawsuit from two pension plans had landed BlackRock’s securities lending scheme in trouble, after it was alleged that the asset management firm had taken revenue out of investors’ hands...

Eurex witness single stock increase and repo decline

04 February 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Eurex Group has released its January 2013 figures, which show an increase in equity derivatives but a decrease in repo...

Securities lending CCP activities up for OCC

04 February 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Total cleared contract volume in January reached 365,027,878 contracts for OCC. This represents an 8 percent increase from the January 2012 volume of 337,222,938 contracts...

The Salvation Army versus BNY Mellon continues

01 February 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit from The Salvation Army that claims BNY Mellon mismanaged its assets by investing the collateral used for securities lending in risky mortgage backed securities...

Beneficial owner conference: absolute regulation disrupts absolutely

31 January 2013 New Orleans
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The IMN Beneficial Owners’ International Securities Lending Conference had to compete with Mardi Gras and the run-up to the Super Bowl for its attendees’ attention...

FRC says it will not pursue Ernst & Young over Lehman failure

30 January 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has decided that no action should be taken against Ernst & Young over the accounting firm’s auditing of Lehman Brothers...

ForexClear reaches $500 billion notional cleared

28 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

LCH. Clearnet has cleared more than $500 billion in notional of FX NDFs through its ForexClear service since it launched in March 2012. The volumes were driven by figures of $207 billion in Q4...

Exclusives are the bright spark amidst cowed volumes

28 January 2013 Boston
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Client auctions in 2012 represented some of the highest revenue generating auctions in the firm’s history, announced eSecLending in a release...

Agent lenders asked indemnification questions, says Finadium

24 January 2013 Concord
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Strong institutional participation, stabilised fee splits and concern over indemnification were just three of the trends that Finadium identified in its securities lending survey...

Eurex Repo to fund GC Pooling and Euro Repo markets

21 January 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Eurex Repo will extend the maximum term of tradable securities for the Eurex Repo markets such as GC Pooling and Euro Repo...

Swedish bonds are safest in the world, says ING

21 January 2013 Sweden
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

For default risks, ING Investment Management has judged the Swedish government bond market to be the safest bond market in the world...

Clearstream and Belfius expand collateral services

18 January 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream and Belfius have agreed to develop exclusively a new collateral management activity for bilateral trades, focusing on over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and aimed primarily at corporates and medium-sized banks...

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