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Citigroup admits to 15-year blue sheet violation

13 July 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Citigroup Global Markets has admitted wrongdoing and agreed to a $7 million penalty to settle charges that it provided incomplete blue sheet information to the US Securities and Exchange Commission over a 15-year period...

Spanish trading heats up in June

13 July 2016 Madrid
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Equity trading on BME Clearing's exchange has recorded a 25 percent drop off in volume between January and June this year compared to the same period in 2015...

ESMA offers two-year extension for OTC clearing rule

13 July 2016 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

EMIR's requirement for central clearing of OTC derivatives may be pushed back by two-years for small counterparties...

ETFs offering tasty sec lending returns

12 July 2016 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

European and Asian exchange-traded funds are currently offering particularly attractive lending returns in their equity securities lending rates, according to Clearstream chair Jeffrey Tessler...

State Street joins margin settlement pilot programme

12 July 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Euroclear and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation have secured State Street as a participant in a pilot programme to test their joint venture’s margin settlement messaging service...

Clearing industry criticises leverage ratio

12 July 2016 Basel
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Basel leverage ratio fundamentally threatens the business model of clearing members and will endanger the stability of the global financial markets, according to a joint industry comment letter...

PwC: global growth on the cards for ETFs

11 July 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The global exchange-traded fund market is gearing up for a growth spurt, according to a survey by PwC...

Leverage ratio needs omissions, say associations

08 July 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Five financial industry associations have joined forces to express their strong concern about the implications of including central bank cash balances within Basel III’s leverage ratio framework...

Clearstream: banks on track for T2S

08 July 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The vast majority of banks are confident that they’re prepared for implementation of TARGET2-Securities (T2S), according to a survey by Clearstream and Accenture...

Consob bans short selling of Italian bank shares

07 July 2016 Rome
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Italian financial services regulator Consob has been forced to impose multiple short selling bans on the share of the country’s banks this week after the financial sector suffered fierce market turbulence...