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Murex overhauls MX.3 for Collateral Management

22 June 2015 Paris
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Murex has released a fully overhauled version of MX.3 for Collateral Management, designed to better support sell-side and buy-side financial institutions in optimising pre- and post-trade collateral...

SS&C forward redemptions up in June

19 June 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for June 2015 has shown notifications of 4.72 percent, up from 4.68 percent in May...

Pirum enhances pre-matching service

19 June 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Pirum has enhanced its Real-Time Pending pre-matching service to enable users to identify issues minutes after the loan or return is booked, leading to reduced fails and improved settlement times...

SunGard's hottest stocks

18 June 2015 Global
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SunGard’s Astec Analytics has compiled the hottest stocks from around the globe for the week beginning 8 June 2015...

Fitch: fire sale could burn repo

18 June 2015 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The repo market could be at risk if a ‘fire sale’ of assets hits financial markets, Fitch Ratings has warned in a new report...

Securities Financing Transactions Regulation almost here

17 June 2015 Brussels
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The EU Securities Financing Transactions Regulation has moved a step closer to implementation after the law’s final text was agreed...

Fidelity criticises FSB’s G-SIFI methodology

17 June 2015 Basel
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

US asset manager Fidelity has rubbished the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) latest proposed methodology for designating large individual investment funds as global systemically important financial institutions (G-SIFIs)...

SGSS: Institutions need to be bold

17 June 2015 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Asset managers and financial institutions will have to make bold decisions in order to adapt their collateral and liquidity management functions to global investment activities, according to Clement Phelipeau of SGSS...