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RMA conference to proceed despite Hurricane Irma

11 September 2017 Naples
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The RMA's 34th Annual Conference on Securities Lending in Naples, Florida, will go ahead as scheduled, despite the regional damage caused by Hurricane Irma, conference organisers have confirmed

Citi and Deutsche Bank execute first SwapAgent trades

07 September 2017 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

LCH’s new SwapAgent service has completed its first trades, facilitating an interest-rate swap and an inflation swap between Citi and Deutsche Bank

Pirum’s Ben Challice heads to J.P. Morgan

07 September 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Pirum Systems COO Ben Challice is heading to J.P. Morgan to take charge of the bank’s collateral management and agency lending businesses in a newly created role

Brazilian exchange smoothes post-trade systems with Pirum

06 September 2017 São Paulo
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The new file standardisation process will enable Pirum to significantly expand its Brazilian trade reconciliations

North America slims down to T+2

05 September 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The shorter settlement timeframe also aligns these markets with the EU, which moved to a T+2 settlement cycle in 2014

ECB offers new safety standards for central bank triparty usage

05 September 2017 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Industry stakeholders are invited to comment on the proposed standards with an eye on the final version coming into force by the end of the year or the beginning of 2018

World’s pension funds return to form in 2016

05 September 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The top 20 funds by asset size saw a higher increase than the overall ranking, with a 7.1 percent boost to AUM since 2011

OCC’s growth continues

04 September 2017 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

OCC's securities lending CCP activity was up 25 percent in new loans year-over-year in August, with 200,844 transactions

JCPenney and Snap on top of FIS hot stocks

01 September 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

High street retailer JCPenney and Snap, owner of photo sharing app Snapchat, led the FIS Astec Analytics hot stocks list for the Americas for the week starting 21 August

Securities lending doesn’t undermine long-only portfolios, experts says

01 September 2017 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

A common argument against securities lending—that it supports short sellers and so undermines the value of long only portfolios—is without foundation, Simon Waddington of State Street has argued

IHS Markit analyses the UK’s most shorted prepare to reveal earnings

31 August 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Petrofac has 10.6 percent of shares out on loan as short sellers looked to capitalise on the heavy losses that the investigation revelation instigated

Securities lending market adapting to liquidity crunch, says ISLA

30 August 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Quarter-end volatility calmed in the first half of 2017, compared to the year before, according ISLA report

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