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The CFTC allows some relief for prime brokerage arrangements

03 May 2013 Washington DC
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Gary Barnett of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has penned a letter in response to requests for relief from market participants to oversight of their prime brokerage arrangements...

25 years later, Gerry Degaute bows out of Royal Mail

02 May 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

After 25 years of service, Gerry Degaute has decided to step down as chief executive of the Royal Mailâ€™s pension trustees...

BlackRockâ€™s David Geffen goes it alone

02 May 2013 San Francisco
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

After departing BlackRock in 2011, David Geffen officially announced the creation of his new consultancy firm for hedge funds...

Open Interest at OneChicago up 66 percent

02 May 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Equity finance exchange OneChicago celebrated an April 2013 volume of 567,897â€”an increase of 148 percent year-on-year...

OCCâ€™s lending CCP rises by 53 percent

02 May 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC's) securities lending CCP activities saw a 53 percent increase in new loans over April 2012 with 121,910 transactions last month...

Greece extends short selling ban yet again

01 May 2013 Athens
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Greece's capital markets regulator has decided to extend its ban on short selling until the end of July, stating that the decision was due to the countryâ€™s recapitalisation plan...

Pension funds fret over investment and regulation

01 May 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

There will be no let-up in the challenges facing funds, said respondents to a State Street survey. In fact, investment decisions will become more complex...

Paladyne secures rights for Numerix risk offering

30 April 2013 Lake Success
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Broadridge company Paladyne Systems has secured the source code, development rights and unlimited distribution rights for Numerix Portfolio Risk...

India's BSE to hold special securities lending session

30 April 2013 Mumbai
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is conducting a special securities finance trading session on 11 May to test its disaster recovery systems...

Rule Financial expands domain group with Graeme Wood

29 April 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Rule Financial has hired Graeme Wood as a principal consultant in its domain group. Based in the London office, Wood joins Rule Financial from UBS...

Doran Jones names Duncan Rawls as managing director

29 April 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Duncan Rawls is joining Doran Jones as managing director and chief information officer. Rawls joins Doran Jones from J.P. Morgan...

Basel III beckons for securities finance

25 April 2013 Concord
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

A new report from Finadium reviews the effects of Basel III on securities finance and looks at how banks are addressing funding considerations...

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