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Demand drops for Clearstream’s sec finance services

10 September 2015 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Post-trade services provider Clearstream experienced a 3 percent drop off for global securities financing services last month, falling to €613 billion, according to its August figures...

NSD launches settlement risk mitigation technology

10 September 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Russia’s central securities depository, the National Settlement Depository (NSD), has implemented back-to-back settlements technology for off-exchange delivery-versus-payment transactions...

Northern Trust grows to meet sec lending demand

10 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Northern Trust has responded to increasing demand for its securities lending and transition management services by creating several new senior positions in its global capital markets team...

Global borrow demand boosted by $10bn

09 September 2015 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Global borrow balances grew by more than $10 billion in the first week of September with some industries reporting more than $1 billion of stock value fluctuations, according to S3 Blacklight...

Deutsche Bank exit prompts unit merger

09 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Deutsche Bank has merged its listed derivatives and markets clearing department into its prime services unit, which manages the bank’s securities lending services for borrowers...

Short sellers target Chinese automobile industry

09 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

China’s ongoing financial woes have led short sellers to target struggling Chinese automobile stocks, according to Markit..

Associations offer mixed review of FSB data proposals

08 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Industry associations have expressed a preference for the use of position level data to make securities lending more transparent, in a response letter to the Financial Stability Board’s data experts group meeting...