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BATS Europe unveils preferred interoperable clearing service

23 May 2011 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

BATS Europe has announced plans to launch an exclusive preferred interoperable clearing programme to allow trading participants the choice of a preferred clearer from three interoperating clearing counterparties (CCPs) from late July, pending regulat

Pico selects InRush

20 May 2011 Woburn
Reporter: Justin lawson

Redline Trading Solutions has had its InRush Accelerated Ticker Plant selected for Pico Quantitative Trading’s (PQT) new managed solution specifically designed for its multi-asset electronic trading clients...

Opportunities Abound Despite Regulatory Hurdles

19 May 2011 London
Reporter: Will Duff Gordon

Will Duff Gordon looks forward to the Data Explorers New York Securities Financing Forum where leading professionals will gather to discuss regulation and the tensions within the securities finance industry, along with some ground breaking new academ

Shearman & Sterling advises SIX x-clear

19 May 2011 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Shearman & Sterling has advised SIX x-clear AG (x-clear), a subsidiary of SIS Swiss Financial Services Group AG, on its arrangements to become an interoperable clearing house and central counterparty alongside LCH.Clearnet Limited.

Healthnostics addresses unusual trading

18 May 2011 New York
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

Healthnostics, having previously issued guidance regarding short-sales of Healthnostics, Inc. common stock have noticed unusual trading activity has continued, involving new market-makers, a significant increase in volume and illegal naked short sell

Headstrong to launch collateral management survey

13 May 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Headstrong has teamed up with TowerGroup to create a benchmarking survey on the collateral management process across all asset classes...

BTIG enhances multi-prime solution

13 May 2011 New York
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

BTIG, LLC, has added J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp. (J.P. Morgan) as a clearing agent and custodian for its Prime Brokerage platform. BTIG Prime Brokerage will now offer its clients both J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp. and Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing

UK to fight EU short selling curbs

12 May 2011 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The UK is to argue that EU proposals granting European regulators the power to ban short selling during financial crises may be unworkable...

Warsaw to build securities lending activities

11 May 2011 Warsaw
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The Warsaw Stock Exchange has said it will be creating a bourse for securities lending trades at the start of 2012...

Specialist class action law firm renames

10 May 2011 Radnor
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

Not content with litigating securities lending actions on behalf of institutional clients the law firm known as Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP will be changing it's name, effective May 15, it becomes Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP...

Citi win City of Fort Worth securities lending mandate

10 May 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Citi have been awarded a mandate to provide third-party securities lending to the City of Fort Worth, Texas....

Egypt to launch ETFs and short selling

10 May 2011 Cairo
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The Egyptian Stock Exchange is to launch exchange traded funds and allow short selling in an attempt to boost liquidity in the market at a time of political unrest, said the bourse's chairman Mohamed Abd El Salam...

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