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Zurcher Kantonalbank adds Zemp to prime finance team

10 September 2012 Zurich
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Zurcher Kantonalbank has snapped up Raphael Zemp as a vice president and trader for its prime finance team. He will work on the fixed income and financing side of the business...

Advent Launches collateral management toolkit

10 September 2012 Las Vegas
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Advent Software has launched a new Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) package for the Syncova(R) platform. The IRS package is a set of collateral management tools...

Securities lending is at a high for OCC

07 September 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Options Clearing Corporation’s (OCC) securities lending CCP activities saw a 50 percent increase in new loans from August 2011, with 92,072 transactions last month...

Clearstream’s GSF services drop in August

07 September 2012 Luxembourg and Frankfurt
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Clearstream has released its August 2012 figures, which reveal an increase in assets under custody, but a dip in the company’s global securities financing services...

Eurex Clearing rolls out new OTC derivatives system ‘Prisma’

07 September 2012 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Eurex Clearing plans to introduce a new risk methodology for calculating initial margin for both listed and over-the-counter derivatives called Eurex Clearing Prisma...

Security futures contracts drop at OneChicago

07 September 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

OneChicago (OCX), an equity finance exchange, traded 433,498 security futures contracts in August 2012, a dip compared to 507,238 traded in the...

Riskbank cuts Sweden’s repo rates

06 September 2012 Sweden
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Riskbank’s executive board has decided to cut Sweden’s repo rate, to prevent inflation falling too low...

Hong Kong shorting gets pricey

06 September 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Markit Securities Finance has released a report that indicated the high cost of short selling in Hong Kong. In a blog post, Will Duff Gordon...

Battery seller short-circuits the market

06 September 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Battery manufacturer A123 Systems triggered the market short-sale rule on Wednesday morning, 5 September, when shares of its stock dropped below 10 percent...

Lombard prepares for common reporting

05 September 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Lombard Risk is releasing its Risk REPORTER solution to clients in preparation for the European Banking Authority’s (EBA) Common Reporting requirements (COREP)...

BCS London recruits four

05 September 2012 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

BCS global markets and investment banking has made four senior appointments to its new London office...

Broadridge enhances PROactive Matching solution

04 September 2012 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Broadridge financial solutions has announced that functionality within its service-based trade confirmation solution, PROactive Matching...

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