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ICMA and ISLA partner on GMRA workshops

06 July 2010 London
Reporter:

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and the International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) will partner to hold joint public workshops on the Global Master Repurchase Agreement (GMRA)

Daiwa Capital Markets growth through acquisition

05 July 2010 London
Reporter:

Daiwa Capital Markets (Daiwa), is acquiring the global convertible bonds and Asian equity derivatives business lines of Belgium's KBC Group NV for a total consideration of approximately USD 1bn

No Naked Norwegians

02 July 2010 Oslo
Reporter:

The Norwegian Parliament has passed changes to the Norwegian Securities Trading Act on naked short selling.

OCC reports 11 per cent increase in H1

02 July 2010 Chicago
Reporter:

Over 2 billion contracts exchanged hands in a six-month period for the first time

BNY Mellon promotes Daniel Smith in Asia-Pacific

02 July 2010 Hong Kong
Reporter:

Daniel Smith is the new chief administrative officer for BNY Mellon in the Asia Pacific region...

BNY Mellon completes PNC acquisition

02 July 2010 New York
Reporter:

BNY Mellon has completed the acquisition of PNC's Global Investment Servicing business...

LAFPP submits custody RFI

01 July 2010 Los Angeles
Reporter:

The City of Los Angeles Fire & Police Pension Plan has submitted a RFI for master trust custodial banking services...

Collateral process, best practise

01 June 2010 New York
Reporter:

The Best Practices are the result of the collaborative efforts of a working group of buy-side and sell-side market participants, under the auspices of the ISDA Collateral Steering Committee.

In our defense - Premier GSL release statement

30 June 2010 Boston
Reporter:

Earlier today Premier Global Securities Lending released a statement announcing that Peter Economou, Paul Lynch, Suzanne Lee, Michael McAuley, William Locke, Oberon Knapp, Larry Albaugh and Michael Landolfini are joining the company as part of the ma

Through the ranks

30 June 2010 Toronto
Reporter:

Rob Ferguson, vice president, product and client service, global securities lending, and Robert Chiuch, vice president, head of trading, global securities lending, will share cross-functional responsibilities in replacing James Slater.

Citi snaps up David Martocci

30 June 2010 New York
Reporter:

David Martocci has been appointed managing director and global product manager of third party securities lending at Citi Global Transaction Services

Sebi eases reporting requirement for FIIs

29 June 2010 Press Trust of India
Reporter:

Market regulator SEBI today relaxed the reporting requirement on lending of securities by FIIs for the purpose of short selling. FIIs now have to disclose the information on a weekly basis instead of daily.

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