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Patriarco is LCH.Clearnet’s new head of collateral services

08 June 2012 US
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

LCH.Clearnet will see Stephen Patriarco as global head of collateral services and US head of collateral and liquidity management (CaLM) as the company attempts to underscore the importance of the American market...

Clearstream’s sec lending rises five percent

08 June 2012 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

For Global Securities Financing (GSF) services, the monthly average outstanding at Clearstream in May 2012 reached €579.2 billion...

Conifer group fires 4

08 June 2012 San Francisco
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

San Francisco-based Conifer Group, which provides fund administration services, has laid off four of its employees, it has been reported...

J.P. Morgan must pay out to AFTRA

08 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A Manhattan judge approved J.P Morgan’s $150 million settlement of a lawsuit over losses from the bank’s securities lending programme...

Spain’s CNMV wants short selling back

07 June 2012 Madrid
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Spanish stock market regulator the CNMV said it is lifting a ban on short selling of financial stocks that had been in force since August, saying market volatility had eased in recent weeks...

Kellner rebrands and launches new fund

07 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Hedge fund manager Kellner DiLeo & Company has been reorganised and renamed as Kellner Capital. It has also launched a new event-driven investment fund...

UK sues EU over plans to ban short selling

07 June 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer has filed a lawsuit against the EU in a bid to stop it giving ESMA the power to limit or to ban short selling in an emergency...

Pirum expands London team

06 June 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Pirum Systems has strengthened its London team with the appointment of Tony Holland as business development manager. He moves to Pirum from Russell Investments...

Credit Suisse moves Asia prime services head to London

06 June 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Kevin Meehan, former head of prime services for Asia Pacific at Credit Suisse, will be moved to London from Hong Kong later this summer to act as global head of prime fund services...

Singapore Exchange’s SBL programme totals $20.3 million

06 June 2012 Singapore
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Daily average outstanding loans under the securities borrowing and lending programme at the Singapore Exchange (SGX) totalled $20.29 million (S$26.1 million), up 31 percent from a year earlier...

Fox River adds US equity algorithm to solutions suite

04 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

SunGard’s Fox River has enhanced its algorithm suite with a US equity ‘dollar certain’ algorithm, which is used when traders want to execute a trade in dollars rather than shares...

OCC scores May 2012 clearing increase

04 June 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

OCC's stock loan programme had an average daily notional value of $32,519,734,680...

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