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Bears sightings increase in London real estate
15 July 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Short sellers are moving into the UK real estate sector in greater numbers as investor sentiment sours after the referendum, according to Markit...

Linear taps RSRCHXchange for compliant research
15 July 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Linear Investments has partnered with RSRCHXchange to offer its hedge fund clients to access to research in a manner compliant with MiFID II...

Short sellers Diglett Nintendo
15 July 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The gaming phenomenon Pokأ©mon Go has helped Nintendoâ€™s share price to soar by 93 percent in the past week, but FIS Astec Analytics data has revealed that speculative short sellers are also gathering...

Frost receives warm welcome as CalPERS CEO
15 July 2016 Sacramento
Reporter: Drew Nicol

CalPERS's board of administration has unanimously voted Marcie Frost as the pension fund's new CEO, effective 3 October...

Deutsche Bank names new Asia Pacific CEO
15 July 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Deutsche Bank has appointed Werner Steinmueller, current head of global transaction banking, to take on the role of CEO for the Asia Pacific region...

Brexit update: BoE keeps interest rates the same
14 July 2016 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Bank of England has declined to raise interest rates in the face of increasing economic uncertainty following the UKâ€™s decision to leave the EU, but warned that volatility in property prices might require action in the future...

South Africa makes the leap to T+3
13 July 2016 Johannesburg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

South Africaâ€™s capital market has initiated its long-anticipated settlement reform by shortening its standard cycle to T+3 from T+5, this week...

Citigroup admits to 15-year blue sheet violation
13 July 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Citigroup Global Markets has admitted wrongdoing and agreed to a $7 million penalty to settle charges that it provided incomplete blue sheet information to the US Securities and Exchange Commission over a 15-year period...

Spanish trading heats up in June
13 July 2016 Madrid
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Equity trading on BME Clearing's exchange has recorded a 25 percent drop off in volume between January and June this year compared to the same period in 2015...

ESMA offers two-year extension for OTC clearing rule
13 July 2016 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

EMIR's requirement for central clearing of OTC derivatives may be pushed back by two-years for small counterparties...

ETFs offering tasty sec lending returns
12 July 2016 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

European and Asian exchange-traded funds are currently offering particularly attractive lending returns in their equity securities lending rates, according to Clearstream chair Jeffrey Tessler...

State Street joins margin settlement pilot programme
12 July 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Euroclear and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation have secured State Street as a participant in a pilot programme to test their joint ventureâ€™s margin settlement messaging service...