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Euroclear states that its figures "eclipse" rivals

21 January 2014 Brussels
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Average daily collateral outstanding on Euroclear’s global collateral highway climbed from €700 billion at the end of 2012 to over €787 billion at the end of 2013, with peaks of up to €830 billion in the second half of the year...

Investor exodus from macro funds

17 January 2014 London
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

A new report suggests that investors have abandoned macro funds in 2013 as higher-risk alternatives proved to be more profitable...

BoE to make borrowing easier for banks

17 January 2014 London
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

The Bank of England has launched new indexed long-term repo operations (ILTR), which it believes will help to provide liquidity insurance to the banking system...

Fraud rumours send Mindray Medical rocketing

17 January 2014 Beijing
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Whisperings of fraud are continuing to distress Mindray Medical, with a high amount of the Chinese firm’s stock having been borrowed since October...

Clearstream's GSF rises 7 percent

13 January 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream’s global securities financing (GSF) services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, increased by 7 percent year-on-year, the company reported...

Short sellers were early indication of 2008 crisis

10 January 2014 Dallas
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Actions of short sellers likely provided an early warning of banks’ upcoming distress prior to the 2008 crisis, an academic study has suggested...

Lending transactions rise for Brazil’s stock exchange

09 January 2013 São Paulo
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In 2013, securities lending transactions at BM&FBOVESPA reached a new milestone with a financial volume of BRL 1 trillion with 1,693,151 trades...

Shorters circle around Western Asset Mortgage Capital

08 January 2014 Pasadena
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

According to reports, Zacks has recently downgraded Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corp (WMC) from neutral to underperform...

Utilisation of Twitter stays buoyant

08 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Utilisation levels for Twitter remain high after low trading levels in the Christmas month, SunGard reported...

OneChicago CEO cites securities lending in 2013 success

06 January 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

Equity finance exchange OneChicago has confirmed a December 2013 volume of 1,174,205 and a total volume of 9,515,194 for 2013...

Qatar CSD goes private

03 January 2014 Qatar
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Qatar central securities depository has been established as a Qatari private shareholding company...

OCC sees 8 percent increase in new loans

03 January 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

OCC's securities lending central counterparty activities saw an 8 percent increase in new loans from December 2012 with 93,274 transactions last month...

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