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Question of Volcker Rule foreign coverage answered

20 January 2014 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Frank Mayer, Timothy McTaggart and Jonathan Levin of law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP have asserted that “location, location, location” is the most important aspect of the Volcker Rule’s requirements on foreign banking entities...

Investor exodus from macro funds

17 January 2014 London
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

A new report suggests that investors have abandoned macro funds in 2013 as higher-risk alternatives proved to be more profitable...

BoE to make borrowing easier for banks

17 January 2014 London
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

The Bank of England has launched new indexed long-term repo operations (ILTR), which it believes will help to provide liquidity insurance to the banking system...

Fraud rumours send Mindray Medical rocketing

17 January 2014 Beijing
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Whisperings of fraud are continuing to distress Mindray Medical, with a high amount of the Chinese firm’s stock having been borrowed since October...

BCS hires John Barker from Liquidnet

16 January 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BCS, the trader of equities and FX on the Russian exchange, has appointed John Barker as executive chairman of BCS Financial Group in London. Barker started his new role at BCS in January 2014...

Collateral management systems made defunct

16 January 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Interactive Data Corporation and Matrix Applications have agreed to provide data and tools to help asset managers to navigate the process of margining forward-settling trades...

Michael Messinger rejoins Maxim Group

15 January 2014 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Maxim Group has hired Michael Messinger as an executive managing director and co-head of the fixed income group...

Anticipated €50bn cash-flow drag from FTT

15 January 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

There will be an estimated an annual cash-flow drag of €30–50 billion resulting from the Financial Transaction Tax, suggested a report...

Eurex broadens collateral reach

14 January 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Eurex Clearing has extended its collateral services by providing direct connectivity into Clearstream’s triparty collateral management service (the global liquidity hub)...

Alexandra Ricciardi wields collateral expertise at BNP Paribas

14 January 2014 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNP Paribas Securities Services has hired Alexandra Ricciardi to extend the firm’s collateral franchise to North America...

Matteo Cassina joins Saxo Bank

13 January 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Prime brokerage veteran Matteo Cassina has joined Saxo Bank in a push to expand the bank’s growth within the institutional space...

Clearstream's GSF rises 7 percent

13 January 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream’s global securities financing (GSF) services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, increased by 7 percent year-on-year, the company reported...

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