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EquiLend breaks new ground in South Africa

04 July 2014 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

On 1 July, Absa Bank, the South African banking entity of Barclays Group Africa, became the first-ever domestic South African entity to execute a securities finance trade via the EquiLend trading platform...

Amherst merges with Pierpoint

03 July 2014 Texas
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Amherst Securities Group and Pierpont Securities have entered into a definitive agreement to merge, in a transaction that will create a fixed-income broker-dealer...

Banks could benefit from up to €40 billion

03 July 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephen Durham

A Clearstream-sponsored study has revealed the need for a “collateral value chain” in order to enable up to €40 billion in equity capital savings for European banks...

OneChicago's year-over-year volume skyrockets

02 July 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Stephen Durham

OneChicago’s June 2014 trading volume increased 63 percent year-over-year to 1,269,074...

Highs and lows for Eurex Repo

02 July 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Eurex Repo, the operator of the Swiss Franc, Euro Repo and GC Pooling markets, recorded an average volume of €238.6 billion in all markets in June...

More downs than ups for OCC

02 July 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Stephen Durham

OCC's securities lending CCP activity was down 17 percent in new loans from June 2013 with 100,658 transactions for the month...

SunGard's hottest stocks

01 July 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SunGard’s Astec Analytics have selected a wide variety of the globe’s hottest stocks, with entrants’ interests ranging from cement to internet gaming...

Research highlights need for efficiency

27 June 2014 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

While regulations continue to drive firms’ investments in new technology and infrastructure, a number of other trends are influencing firms’ desire to increase efficiency, according to a new whitepaper from Sapient Global Markets...