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M&A on the decline, says Lyxor

12 August 2014 Paris
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The M&A market has soared since the start of year, but recent conditions have proven more difficult, with two major merger deals collapsing, according to research from the Lyxor managed account platform...

SunGard solution for Islamic Bank of Egypt

12 August 2014 Cairo
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt has selected SunGard’s suite of enterprise risk management solutions to help build a new operational framework for improved risk exposure, reporting and Basel compliance.

Short sellers increase interest in Russia

11 August 2014 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Short interest in Russia is climbing in the wake of tough sanctions from the west, according to Markit Securities Finance analyst Andrew Laird...

Collateral becoming regionalised

11 August 2014 London
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

The first-order effect of the global effort to increase regulation of fixed-income trading has been to increase regionalisation in the treatment of collateral at European and US clearinghouses, according to TABB Group...

SunGard sees US equity balance boom

08 August 2014 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Balances on loan for US equities have risen 70 percent since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, according to an analyst at SunGard’s Astec Analytics...

Painful July for hedge funds

08 August 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

July was a volatile month for hedge fund performance with an aggregate performance of -0.35 percent for the month...

Irish central bank has UCITS worries

07 August 2014 Dublin
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Central Bank of Ireland has claimed that there are strong grounds for limiting the collateral diversification relaxation set out in the revised version of the ESMA Guidelines on exchange-traded funds and other UCITS issues...

Clearstream responds to securities questionnaire

06 August 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The 2014 version of Clearstream Banking Luxembourg (CBL)’s BIS-IOSCO disclosure framework for securities settlement services (SSS) has been published...

IOSCO launches public information repository

06 August 2014 Madrid
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) is to open an information repository for central clearing requirements for OTC derivatives to the public...

New board member at Eurex Clearing

05 August 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Tammy Facey

Eurex Clearing AG supervisory board has appointed Matthias Graulich as member of its executive board...

Deutsche Bank's July trends

05 August 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Convertible bond issuance and M&A volume picked substantially in July, according to recent research from Deutsche Bank...

A tale of two markets

04 August 2014 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The funded status of the typical US corporate pension plan declined 1.2 percentage points in July 2014 to 90.8 percent, as the steep drop in equity prices at the end of July sent asset values lower, according to ISSG...

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