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Lombard Risk hires compliance products director

22 November 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Lombard Risk Management has appointed David Wilford as director of compliance products. Wilford will also act as product director for Lombard Risk Management’s new compliance and audit application, ComplianceASSESSOR, and lead its dedicated team...

State Street CFO to retire in 2013

21 November 2012 Boston
Reporter: Jenna Jones

State Street’s executive vice president and CFO, Edward Resch, will retire in 2013 after more than 10 years in the role...

Have your say on the FSB’s sec lending recommendations

21 November 2012 Switzerland
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In its continued efforts to strengthen oversight and regulation of “shadow banking”, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) is asking for feedback on its thirteen recommendations...

Citi extends securities lending services to Malaysia

21 November 2012 Kuala Lumpur
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Citi now offers securities lending services in Malaysia through its OpenLend platform. The new service will allow offshore and domestic investors access to the Malaysian market...

Thomson Reuters launches StarMine

20 November 2012 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Thomson Reuters has released a new model that assesses the activities of short sellers in the US equity markets and could help to generate alpha...

J.P. Morgan waves goodbye to triparty repo intraday credit exposure

19 November 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

More than a third of J.P. Morgan’s intraday credit exposure that it experiences during the unwinding of triparty repos has been eliminated as the firm implements market reforms...

Pakistan ponders intraday short-selling

19 November 2012 Karachi
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A meeting whose attendees included the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) discussed allowing intraday short-selling, but reached no final decision...

RBS hires new head of prime services

16 November 2012 Connecticut
Reporter: Jenna Jones

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has appointed Jeffrey Howard as head of prime services for the Americas, based in Stamford, Connecticut.

First female chair for European Federation for Retirement Provision

16 November 2012 Dublin
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Joanne Segars, chief executive of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), has been elected as chair of the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP)...

CCPs do not conform

15 November 2012 Concord
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The heterogeneous nature and diverse ownership of central counterparties (CCPs) worldwide mean that they do not conform with regulatory initiatives to impose a single framework for operations and risk management, according to a new report...

Citi opens securities lending trading desk in Dublin

14 November 2012 Dublin
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Citi has opened a securities lending trading desk in Dublin, as it expands its OpenLend capabilities in key cities and regions around the world...

Canada to expand accepted securities for lending

14 November 2012 Toronto
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Securities lenders and borrowers in Canada will soon be able to trade any trust that is listed on a stock exchange after the country’s minister of finance, Jim Flaherty, tabled a motion to implement outstanding technical tax amendments...

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