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FINRA okays Wells Fargo's self-clearing prime product

14 August 2014 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Wells Fargo Securities will go-ahead with the launch of its self-clearing prime brokerage platform after receiving approval from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority...

Rise in GSF transactions for Clearstream

12 August 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Growing industry demand for Global Securities Financing (GSF) services has caused Clearstream’s monthly average outstanding to increase to €619.5 billion for the month of July 2014...

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...

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