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Poland bucks the market

28 May 2010 Warsaw
Reporter:

The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) and the National Depository for Securities (NDS) have published the necessary amendments to their Rules in order to allow short selling in the Polish market, effective from July 1, 2010.

J.P Morgan Hiring down under

28 May 2010 Sydney
Reporter:

J.P. Morgan recently announced further expansion plans for its Treasury & Securities Services businesses which will see the recruitment of 100 additional staff across Australia and New Zealand and establishment of a new Australian headquarters.

Registration for Stockloan professionals

27 May 2010 Washington
Reporter:

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today issued a Regulatory Notice soliciting comments on a rule proposal designed to enhance oversight of broker-dealers' "back-office" operations by expanding registration requirements.

Increased appetite for risk

27 May 2010 New York
Reporter:

Following a very successful US conference, 'The Securities Financing Forum' which took place yesterday, May 26th at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York, Data Explorers, today released some interesting survey findings.

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.

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