OneChicago saw its EFP activity post best year-to-date month with over 130,000 contracts, representing more than $1.2 billion in notional value and up 30 per cent over October...
J.P. Morgan has announced the expansion of its Prime Custody service to hedge fund clients of its European Prime Brokerage business through a fully integrated platform...
Members of the Bank of England's Securities Lending and Repo Committee (SLRC) noted that European short selling bans were disruptive for the equity securities lending markets and considered inviting CCP providers to future meetings...
Taiwan鈥檚 regulators urged insurers to stop lending securities to short sellers, seeking to bolster equities after heavy losses on markets, according to Businessweek....
Short selling in UAE markets may be approved as early as the second half of 2012, said financial regulator, the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) at a SunGard Dubai City Day event held on 23 November...
Euroclear France, the French central securities depository (CSD), has launched its first triparty collateral management service for the French market...
Asian hedge funds prefer to use full-service prime brokers that offer research and back-office capabilities as well as access to IPOs and Chinese stocks, according to the Nomura Research Institute...
Hedge fund redemption requests for November measured 3.4 per cent, a rise on last month's 2.5 per cent, according to GlobeOp Financial Services' Forward Redemption Indicator...