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LSE highlights collateral fight

18 June 2014 London
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Access to collateral could become a challenge as firms see wider sources of liquidity and assets, an academic study published by the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE) has revealed...

Wells Fargo new product about to hit the market

18 June 2014 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Wells Fargo Securities will launch a self-clearing prime brokerage product for its hedge fund clients by the end of June...

OneChicago to launch OCX weekly

18 June 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Tammy Facey

OneChicago will launch a new line of products called OCX.Weekly, which will list weekly futures each Friday...

Senate approved Giancarlo sworn in at CFTC

17 June 2014 Washington DC
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

J. Christopher Giancarlo has been sworn in as a commissioner of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

SunGard makes trading easier

17 June 2014 London
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

SunGard Financial Systems has released its Front Arena Cross-Asset Risk solution to increase trading capacity...

EquiLend recruits for post-trade services

17 June 2014 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

EquiLend has appointed Iain Mackay as product owner for post-trade services, effective immediately. He is based in London...

Transparency key for hedge fund managers

16 June 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Hedge fund managers refusing to provide transparency is the single greatest reason for an investor veto, according to Deutsche Bank’s latest survey...

Eurex Clearing Prisma 2.0 offers cross margining

16 June 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Users of the new risk system Eurex Clearing Prisma can now benefit from portfolio margining capabilities within an asset class as well as cross margining between listed fixed income products and the OTC interest rate swap business...

Markit sets the benchmark

16 June 2014 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Markit is launching a new securities financing benchmarking service for lenders...

Small investors can do sec lending too, says Ireland

13 June 2014 Grand Cayman
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Smaller entities can access the securities lending market for their funding needs, according to Ned Ireland, vice president and lead underwriter at Cayman Islands-based private advisory firm Cal & Schwartz Capital...