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ESMA shakes up securities lending for UCITS funds

26 July 2012 Paris
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

ESMA guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues require greater transparency to investors, as well as the return of all revenue, excluding operating costs, that is earned from securities lending to the fund, according to commentators...

Spain and Italy ban short selling

26 July 2012 Madrid and Rome
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Spanish and Italian regulators have introduced short selling bans due to extreme volatility in financial markets...

South Korea to introduce short selling report rule

04 July 2012 Seoul
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Short sellers will be required to provide reports on their short positions in South Korea as of 30 August so that regulators will have more access to data on short selling activities...

Banco de la Nación Argentina is latest Lombard client

29 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Banco de la Nación Argentina New York (BNA NY), a branch of Banco de la Nación Argentina (BNA), has chosen Lombard Risk to meet compliance requirements...

ECB attempts to increase collateral availability

22 June 2012 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

On 20 June 2012 the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) decided on additional measures to better the access of the banking sector to Eurosystem operations in order to...

Qatar ‘introduces’ sec lending

18 June 2012 Doha
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

In the first phase, the new regulations would allow licensed financial service providers to lend and borrow listed securities to settle failed transactions...

Fidessa issues new regulation white paper

13 June 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Trading, investment management and information solutions provider Fidessa has released a white paper that examines the regulatory pressures facing the financial industry in Europe...

Spain’s CNMV wants short selling back

07 June 2012 Madrid
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Spanish stock market regulator the CNMV said it is lifting a ban on short selling of financial stocks that had been in force since August, saying market volatility had eased in recent weeks...

UK sues EU over plans to ban short selling

07 June 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer has filed a lawsuit against the EU in a bid to stop it giving ESMA the power to limit or to ban short selling in an emergency...

SunGard issues BCBS proposals paper

01 June 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

SunGard has released a paper outlining the likely impact of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s proposals to review the market risk framework under which banks calculate their regulatory capital requirements for the trading book...

RBC Dexia Investor Services deal gets green light in Europe

15 May 2012 Brussels
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC’s) move to take full control of global custody, fund and pension administration services provider RBC Dexia Investor Services has been approved in Europe...

Hong Kong stock exchange tightens short selling rules

14 May 2012 Hong Kong
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong has amended the rules that regulate the short selling of designated securities after it conducted a review earlier this year...

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