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DFM admits Al Ramz Capital as the first regulated short-selling provider

12 February 2018 Dubai
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Al Ramz Capital has become the first member of the Dubai Financial Market to be given a DFM accreditation to provide a regulated short selling service to its client base

Family Bank introduces Acumen for its treasury operations

12 February 2018 Nairobi
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Family Bank in Kenya has implemented Profile Software’s Acumen net solution for its treasury and risk management operations

BNY Mellon opens FX trading room in Seoul

12 February 2018 Seoul
Reporter: Becky Butcher

BNY Mellon has now opened its foreign exchange trading room in Seoul

ESMA aims to increase transparency of securities lending trades in 2018

09 February 2018 Paris
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

In the report, ESMA highlights its direct supervisory activities during 2017 and its other priorities for 2018

GLEIF and SWIFT launch open source BIC-to-LEI relationship file

09 February 2018 Basel
Reporter: Brian Bollen

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation has published the first monthly relationship file that matches a business identifier code (BIC) assigned to an organisation against its legal entity identifier

NGT sees more than 45,000 securities finance trades in one day

09 February 2018 New York
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

EquiLend has found that 45,469 securities finance trades were made through the Next Generation Trading service on the 7 February 2018

Christian Goossens takes on new role at Euroclear

09 February 2018 Brussels
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Christian Goossens has changed roles at Euroclear and will now serve as director of sales, relationship and account management for Europe

BNY Mellon appoints new vice president of collateral management

08 February 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

BNY Mellon has hired Rebecca Bridgeman as vice president and relationship manager of collateral management

ESMA releases new answers on CSDR

08 February 2018 Paris
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

ESMA adds four question for the industry in its most recent Q&A

Malaysia to liberalise short selling

08 February 2018 Kuala Lumpur
Reporter: Brian Bollen

Plans to liberalise short selling arrangements in Malaysia will be rolled out over the next few weeks, according to Tan Sri Ranjit Ajit Singh, executive chairman of the country’s Securities Commission

NEX partners with Delta Capita for SFTR

08 February 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Delta Capita’s securities finance and collateral management practice will work alongside the NEX solution to advise clients on the specific data requirements

Short seller targets ‘loan shark’ Capitec

07 February 2018 Cape Town
Reporter: Brian Bollen

US research firm and short seller Viceroy Research has released a report to explain why “loan shark” Capitec should be placed into curatorship by the South African Reserve Bank

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