An Australian businessman is believed to be the first client to win compensation from the country's National Guarantee Fund following the collapse of Opes Prime...
12 December 2010Washington DC Reporter: Ben Wilkie
The US Senate Special Committee on Ageing is reported to be investigating the securities lending practices of defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes...
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust (MUTI) has seen its long term issuer rating downgraded by Moody's from Aa2 to Aa3 in a move that will restrict its securities lending activities...
Tata Mutual Fund has launched a new fund named as Tata Fixed Maturity Plan Series 29 - Scheme B, a close ended debt scheme, where up to 25 per cent of the assets will be available for securities lending...
08 December 2010New York Reporter: Steven Lafferty
BTIG, LLC, a global broker dealer specializing in institutional trading and related brokerage services, today announced the opening of its new trading desk at 825 Third Avenue.
At the international derivatives markets of Eurex, an average daily volume of 10.2 million contracts was traded in November (November 2009: 9.4 million).
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) has said that total OCC volume reached 354,897,569 contracts in November, with stock loan activities up 71 per cent...
OneChicago, LLC (OCX), the US regulated all-electronic exchange for trading security futures, reported today that 219,071 security futures contracts traded at the Exchange in November 2010.
A new report from Finadium evaluates the investment strategies and business models of the US hedged mutual fund industry, including long/short, absolute return and market neutral '40 Act funds.
J.P. Morgan has launched Australia's first tri-party securities lending transaction in a move that is expected to give superannuation funds greater access to the securities lending market...
The Austrian financial market regulator has extended by six months a temporary ban on naked short-selling of the country's four largest publicly listed financial stocks...
