OCC’s securities lending on the up for July 02 August 2019 Chicago Reporter: Maddie Saghir OCC’s securities lending central counterparty activity was up 10.5 percent in new loans from July last year with 114,818 transactions last month.
Daniel Casley joins Cantor Fitzgerald 02 August 2019 London Reporter: Maddie Saghir Daniel Casley has joined Cantor Fitzgerald as head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa prime operations
S3 Partners makes new hire 01 August 2019 New York Reporter: Maddie Saghir S3 Partners has hired John Clancy as director of business development, based in New York
Deutsche Boerse to launch CSDR solution 01 August 2019 Frankfurt Reporter: Maddie Saghir Deutsche Boerse Buy-in Agent service will include automated securities lending
Eurex Clearing enhance CCP reports for SFTR reporting 01 August 2019 London Reporter: Maddie Saghir Eurex Clearing will introduce the production launch of the central counterparty (CCP) Release 17.0 on 18 November this year
EquiLend hires Grant Davies 01 August 2019 London Reporter: Maddie Saghir EquiLend has hired Grant Davies as head of sales, EMEA, based in London
Timothy Keenan departs BondLend 31 July 2019 New York Reporter: Maddie Saghir Industry veteran Timothy Keenan, who has worked in the industry since 1983, has departed BondLend
Asset managers could save ‘millions’ through clearing ahead of UMR 31 July 2019 London Reporter: Maddie Saghir Asset managers could save millions of dollars through clearing ahead of Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR), research from OpenGamma has suggested
MarketAxess and EquiLend kick-off SFTR testing 30 July 2019 London Reporter: Maddie Saghir Trax, a MarketAxess subsidiary, and EquiLend have begun user acceptance testing (UAT) with phase one go-live clients for their joint Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) solution
OCC bolsters board of directors 30 July 2019 Chicago Reporter: Maddie Saghir OCC has added leaders from Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merrill Lynch to its board of directors
Lendingblock launches new agreement to protect crypto market participants 29 July 2019 London Reporter: Jenna Lomax Lendingblock has established a Global Digital Assets Lending Agreement to protect crypto market participants
ASIC consults on agent lenders role in securities lending 29 July 2019 Sydney Reporter: Maddie Saghir The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is currently consulting on the role played by agent lenders in securities lending