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$3.2 million stock lending fraud

22 June 2012 New Jersey
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Securities and Exchange Commission accused Manuel Bello of running an illegal stock lending scheme that netted him $3.2 million. The New Jersey businessman had two firms...

Moodyâ€™s downgrades 15 banks

22 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The downgrades did not seem to have a great effect, with the global economy and manufacturing output in China remaining the major worries...

J.P. Morgan has new option for managing collateral

21 June 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services (WSS) announced that its tri-party offering for Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) IEF4 program will begin supporting corporate bonds...

Itau BBA snaps up Wagner

21 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Brazilian bank Itau BBA has recruited Gregory Wagner from RBS...

Goldman Sachs prime broker heads to Dutch firm

21 June 2012 Amsterdam
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Amsterdam-based IMC, a prop trading firm, has hired Wim Den Hartog as co-head of its Chicago office, a position which will be made effective on 1 September...

Penson's Michael Johnson departs

21 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Penson's senior vice president and global head of pension stock loan, Michael Johnson, has left the company to pursue new opportunities...

Omgeo addresses collateral management issues

20 June 2012 New York and Boston
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Omgeo has new functionality on Omgeo ProtoColl, its automated collateral management solution. The new version of ProtoColl has been developed with the hope of...

Calypso links with AcadiaSoft to enrich collateral management

20 June 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Calypso Technology will integrate AcadiaSoftâ€™s MarginSphere service, an electronic messaging and workflow solution for OTC collateral, with the Calypso system...

EquiLend enters data business

20 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

EquiLend is introducing a new market data provider for the global securities finance market. DataLend will launch later in 2012...

ECB axes collateral project

19 June 2012 Europe
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided to put the brakes on preparations for the Collateral Central Bank Management (CCBM2) project in its current form...

Lombard Risk enhances repo and sec lending modules

19 June 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Lombard Risk has enhanced its repo and securities lending 'Colline' modules. Colline is designed for for end-to-end, cross-product (bilateral and cleared OTC derivatives, repo and securities lending) collateral management...

Fundâ€™s $50 million credit facility with BNP prime brokerage

18 June 2012 Massachussetts
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

RMR Real Estate Income Fund (RIF) has entered into a new $50 million revolving credit facility with BNP Paribas prime brokerage. The new credit facility bears interest at LIBOR plus 95 basis points and it has a 270 day rolling term that resets daily.

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