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6th annual collateral management conference: Stand by your plan

24 October 2012 Amsterdam
Reporter: Jenna Jones

As regulation deadlines draw closer, buy- and sell-side firms came together at the 6th annual collateral management conference in Amsterdam to breakdown barriers and discuss fears...

ESMA introduces short-selling regulation document

23 October 2012 Paris
Reporter: Jenna Jones

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has released a question and answer document to support upcoming European short selling regulatory regime...

Pension fund picks Northern Trust for securities lending

19 October 2012 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

The Merseyside Pension Fund has appointed Northern Trust to provide global custody, investment accounting, securities lending and commission recapture services...

Securities finance dips in State Street’s Q3 2012 results

18 October 2012 Massachusetts
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

State Street's Q3 2012 results revealed securities finance revenue of $91 million, a decline of 36.4 percent from Q2 2012. But revenue was higher than it was in the same quarter in 2011...

Clearstream and HKMA to launch joint collateral services

17 October 2012 Hong Kong
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Clearstream and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) plan to provide cross-border collateral management and liquidity services in Hong Kong...

Newedge hired as swap counterparty to EEA fund

15 October 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Prime broker Newedge has been appointed as swap counterparty to the EEA Diversified Trends fund. The fund, managed by EEA Fund Management, is Irish-domiciled...

Good news for BNY Mellon lawsuit

15 October 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Filed in July 2009, a lawsuit against BNY Mellon looks to drag on even longer after a judge recently denied a motion for class certification...

RMA conference on securities lending: demanding times

11 October 2012 Miami
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Hedge funds have switched their equity trading programmes to “defensive mode” as far as capital is concerned, while beneficial owners are demanding more information and transparency from their agent lenders...

Chartis names SunGard as one to watch for collateral

11 October 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Chartis Research has named SunGard as a category leader in its RiskTech Quadrant for enterprise collateral management solutions...

RBC expands ETF range

11 October 2012 Toronto
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

RBC Global Asset Management has expanded its suite of Target Maturity Corporate Bond ETFs. Effective today, the RBC Target 2021 Corporate Bond Index ETF is available for purchase...

LCH. Clearnet launches certification programme for OTC Clearing

11 October 2012 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

LCH. Clearnet’s interest rate swap clearing service, SwapClear has launched a global certification programme for firms, preparing market participants for centralised OTC clearing...

RMA conference on securities lending: repricing's right

10 October 2012 Miami
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The US Dodd-Frank Act's Section 165(e) was labelled the “anti-shadow banking act of 2012” at the Risk Management Association's (RMA's) 29th Annual Conference on Securities Lending, while repricing is a "necessary evil"...

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