The Spanish stock market regulator the CNMV said it is lifting a ban on short selling of financial stocks that had been in force since August, saying market volatility had eased in recent weeks...
Hedge fund manager Kellner DiLeo & Company has been reorganised and renamed as Kellner Capital. It has also launched a new event-driven investment fund...
The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer has filed a lawsuit against the EU in a bid to stop it giving ESMA the power to limit or to ban short selling in an emergency...
Pirum Systems has strengthened its London team with the appointment of Tony Holland as business development manager. He moves to Pirum from Russell Investments...
Kevin Meehan, former head of prime services for Asia Pacific at Credit Suisse, will be moved to London from Hong Kong later this summer to act as global head of prime fund services...
Daily average outstanding loans under the securities borrowing and lending programme at the Singapore Exchange (SGX) totalled $20.29 million (S$26.1 million), up 31 percent from a year earlier...
SunGard’s Fox River has enhanced its algorithm suite with a US equity ‘dollar certain’ algorithm, which is used when traders want to execute a trade in dollars rather than shares...
SunGard has released a paper outlining the likely impact of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s proposals to review the market risk framework under which banks calculate their regulatory capital requirements for the trading book...
Securities and investment research firm Finadium has released a research report on the future of counterparty default indemnification in securities lending programmes...