All latest securities finance news

Euronext to build post-trade services through Danish CSD acquisition

24 April 2020 Copenhagen
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The European stock exchange says the deal serves to significantly bolster its post-trade services offering and further diversify its revenue stream to become less reliant on volume-related revenue

Pierpoint welcomes Jeetoo to lead training arm

24 April 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Pierpoint Financial Consulting has expanded its learning and development capabilities for the securities finance sector by appointing Zafirah Jeeto

FIS appoints new senior sales executive

23 April 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

FIS appoints former regional manager of CloudMargin as senior sales executive

EU repo market performed under pressure, report shows

23 April 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

As the dust settles on the worst weeks of COVID-19 chaos so far, ICMA reviews how the EU repo market performed during high volatility

Canadian pension funds bank record returns in 2019

23 April 2020 Canada
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Canadian defined benefit pension plans recorded their second-highest annual return in more than a decade last year

Northern Trust returns to form with Q1 securities lending revenue boost

22 April 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Q1 marks Northern Trust's best quarter for securities lending revenue since 2018

ISLA to form new digital working group

22 April 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

ISLA is inviting member firms to join its new digital working group aimed at developing a CDM for securities lending and contributing to industry consultations

CSDR: ICMA vows to continue push for buy-in amendments, despite ESMA brush off

21 April 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The association says is it not put off by Steven Maijoor's hardball stance and will not give up lobbying for radical changes to CSDR's settlement discipline regime

Curation hires ex SBL senior executive for ESG platform sales chief

21 April 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Business risk-monitoring firm, Curation, has appointed Victoria Foster to head of sales for its new ESG risks platform

BlackRock sees bumper Q1 securities lending revenue

21 April 2020 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The asset manager has chalked up its best Q1 earnings in several years, which contributed to its double-digit overall revenue growth