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PASLA/RMA: foreign investors could flourish

04 March 2015 Shanghai
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Qualified foreign institutional investors and their renminbi counterparts could still enter China's margin financing and securities borrowing and lending markets, according to a panel at the PASLA/RMA Conference on Asian Securities Lending...

Wells Fargo add three directors

03 March 2015 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Wells Fargo Securities has added three directors to its prime services sales and capital introduction groups...

Stock-Connect gets short selling

03 March 2015 Hong Kong
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Short selling of certain Shanghai-listed A shares is now permitted through the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect programme...

Steep peaks and troughs for OneChicago

03 March 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

OneChicago saw an increase of 14 percent for its trading volume in February 2014, despite a 59 percent drop in the number of exchange-traded funds (ETF)...

OCC sec lending activity decreases in February

03 March 2015 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

OCC's securities lending central counterparty activity was down 9 percent in new loans in February compared to the same month in 2014...

PASLA/RMA: the verdict on the pipeline

03 March 2015 Shanghai
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The PASLA/RMA Conference on Asian Securities Lending kicked off with a panel discussion on some of the emerging securities borrowing and lending markets in the region, with South Korea, Indonesia and Taiwan under the spotlight...

European asset manager fears onerous SFT reporting

02 March 2015 Paris
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

European asset management firm Amundi has expressed disappointment over reverse repos and securities lending being considered securities finance transactions under the FSB's consultation on data collection and aggregation...