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Rise in sec lending and collateral management for Clearstream

10 April 2012 Luxembourg
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream has released its March 2012 figures, which saw a 6 per cent rise in its global securities financing services...

Donal Smith to leave Data Explorers

05 April 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

CEO of Data Explorers Donal Smith will leave the company later this year after it was bought out by Markit...

Sinking gas prices increase shorting of engineer Weir’s stock

04 April 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Short sellers are seeking to capitalise on the tumbling price of US gas by shorting stocks in Weir Group, who produce specialist pumps and valves...

Securities lending rises 18 per cent at OCC

03 April 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

OCC has cleared 379.8 million contracts in March, a 10 per cent decrease from the March 2011 volume of 421.5 million contracts...

Markit buys Data Explorers

02 April 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Data Explorers has been bought by financial information services company Markit from mid-market private equity firm Bowmark Capital...

Two new hires for BNP Paribas

29 March 2012 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Claire Gliddon and Valentina Crovato have joined the securities lending team at BNP Paribas...

Euroclear Bank and NSD head into Russia

29 March 2012 Brussels and Moscow
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Euroclear Bank and National Settlement Depository (NSD) have announced plans to provide cross-border services for all classes of Russian domestic securities...

ETF investors talk shop

28 March 2012 Europe
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The counterparty risk of physical ETFs has been underestimated, and regulated and unregulated ETFs need to be differentiated more clearly, were just two of the findings from the European ETF survey...

Wells Fargo squares up to securities lending lawsuit

28 March 2012 Minnesota
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Institutional investors have filed a lawsuit against Wells Fargo, claiming that the bank miss-sold the safeness of its securities lending program...

More short selling woes for Goldman Sachs

27 March 2012 California
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have joined recent claimants in suing Goldman Sachs over short selling...

Broadridge extends Gloss solution to include exchange-traded options

27 March 2012 Lake Success
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Broadridge Financial Solutions will expand the range of multi-asset processing capabilities of Gloss, its leading multi-currency trade processing and settlement solution...

SunGard launches new collateral management solution

26 March 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SunGard has added a cross-enterprise collateral management and optimization solution to its collateral management suite......

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