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Don't short on high valuation alone, says new book

18 October 2013 Massachusetts
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A new book aims to illustrate how successful short investment theses are not based on the premise of high valuations, but rather on the problems with a company’s business model and its accounting practices...

CACEIS on the collateral express

17 October 2013 Luxembourg
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Regulations prompting greater demands on quality and liquidity of collateral have led banks and providers to release collateral management solutions, with CACEIS being next in line with an offering...

RMASL30: collateral change

17 October 2013 Boca Raton
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Good collateral has velocity and central banks cannot rely on institutions’ excess reserves to supply the market, said the a senior economist from the International Monetary Fund at the 30th RMA Conference on Securities Lending...

STOXX and Eurex Repo grow the family indices

17 October 2013 Zurich
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

STOXX Limited and Eurex Repo have expanded the STOXX GC Pooling Index family by 14 new indices to cover the full money market yield curve up to twelve months...

RMASL30: stress ahead

16 October 2013 Boca Raton
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

All components of securities lending are under stress from current and upcoming regulations, according to a speaker at the Risk Management Association Conference on Securities Lending...

EquiLend and BondLend develop new system

16 October 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

EquiLend and BondLend have kicked off the development of a new securities finance trading system that will provide a venue for bilateral trading of general collateral, and warm and hot securities...

DTCC president joins Omgeo board

16 October 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Following the announcement that DTCC acquired full ownership of Omgeo, Michael Bodson, the president and CEO of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), is joining Omgeo’s board of managers as chairman...