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Data Explorers offers unprecedented copyright freedom

26 May 2010 New York
Reporter:

Data Explorers, today announced that its industry standard reference book is available through a Creative Commons license. This allows anyone to copy, distribute and remix the work for non-commercial uses. To view go to LongShortReport.com

Data Explorers Global Top 10 Shorts and Squeezes

25 May 2010 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

A quick snapshot of some of the companies attracting interest from the industry at present. For more information, graphs or statistics contact Data Explorers.

Austrians extend naked short ban

25 May 2010 Vienna
Reporter:

The Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) extends the current temporary ban on naked short selling of shares of Erste Group Bank AG, Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG, UNIQA Versicherungen AG and WIENER STAEDTISCHE Versicherung AG

Change to SOMA Securities Lending Program

25 May 2010 New York
Reporter:

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Open Market Trading Desk is making changes to the System Open Market Account (SOMA) securities lending program.

SunGard integrates AQS Trade Data

24 May 2010 London
Reporter:

SunGard has integrated executed, market-driven trade data derived from Quadriserv's AQS securities lending market into SunGard's Astec Analytics platform, its solution for securities lending performance measurement and program management.

The Texan RFP

22 May 2010 Fort Worth
Reporter:

The City of Fort Worth is requesting proposals for Securities Lending from banks doing business in Texas or primary dealers.

Citi Launches New Collateral Management Unit

22 May 2010 New York
Reporter:

Citi recently announced the creation of a new Collateral Management Services unit within its Securities and Fund Services business. Rajen Shah joins from JPMorgan Chase as Global Head; Pierre Mengal joins from Standard Chartered as Asia Regional Head

CalPERS applaudes US Senate

21 May 2010 Sacramento
Reporter:

The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) today applauded the US Senate for passing the most sweeping overhaul of financial market regulations since the Great Depression.

No more naked in Germany

19 May 2010 Frankfurt
Reporter:

General Decree of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) on the prohibition of uncovered short-selling transactions in debt securities of Member States of the EU whose legal currency is the euro of 18 May 2010

Turkish repo rate decision

19 May 2010 Ankara
Reporter:

The Monetary Policy Committee (The Committee) has decided to keep overnight rates unchanged as follows, and to implement the technical rate adjustment by setting the one week repo auction rate at 7 percent

Tri-Party Repo Reform

17 May 2010 New York
Reporter:

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today announced the publication of a white paper on the work of the Tri-Party Repurchase Agreement (Repo) Infrastructure Reform Task Force. The white paper highlights policy concerns over weaknesses

State Street acquires Intesa Sanpaolo's Securities Services business

17 May 2010 Boston
Reporter:

State Street Now the Largest Investment Service Provider in Italy; Expands Presence in Luxembourg. Gains Long-Term Investment Servicing Agreement with Eurizon Capital, the Largest Fund Manager in Italy

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