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Vietnam's State Bank urged to adjust securities lending policies

17 February 2012 Hanoi
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Vietnam's financial regulator, the State Securities Commission (SSC), has asked the State Bank of Vietnam to adjust its policies towards securities lending, with SSC chairman Vu Bang claiming the activity should not be classified as "non-productive:

New twist in Gerova short selling conspiracy case

17 February 2012 San Francisco
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Another court decision has gone against a man involved in a convoluted tale of short selling conspiracies and fraud....

Bharti departs Credit Suisse

16 February 2012 Hong Kong
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Kirtes Bharti, director, equities and prime services at Credit Suisse, has left the bank according to sources.

Spain lifts short selling ban

15 February 2012 Madrid
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Spain's financial regulator is the latest to lift a short sale ban on financial stocks, citing improved market conditions, according to various media reports...

Short sellers target love

14 February 2012 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Online dating providers with easily replicable business models and tenuous outcomes have attracted interest from short sellers, reports Data Explorers...

France and Belgium lift short selling bans

13 February 2012 Paris
Reporter: Anna Reitman

French and Belgian financial regulators have announced that short selling bans on selected stocks will not be extended...

Illinois state agency considers third party options

13 February 2012 Springfield
Reporter: Anna Reitman

The Illinois Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) has announced it is seeking proposals from outside vendors in a bid to boost its securities lending returns...

Hedge fund flows positive in February

13 February 2012 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Hedge fund flows advanced 2.3 per cent in February, according to the GlobeOp index...

HazelTree appoints new CTO

09 February 2012 New York
Reporter: Anna Reitman

HazelTree has appointed Sandeep Rawal as the firm's chief technology officer (CTO)..

Securities lending pops up at AFME liquidity conference

09 February 2012 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Securities lending operations and repo markets need to "come back" to successfully deleverage the system as a whole, said a leading economist at AFME's European Market Liquidity Conference in London...

Quadriserv appoints joint CEOs

08 February 2012 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Pasquale Cestaro and Bruce Turner have been named co-chief executive officers of Quadriserv and and members of the firm's board of directors...

Clearstream GSF services up 8% in January

07 February 2012 Luxembourg
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Global Securities Financing (GSF) Services at Clearstream lifted eight per cent year-on-year, reaching €594 billion monthly average outstanding in the first month this year...

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