The Chicago-based equity derivatives CCP saw a modest uptick in year-over-year new securities lending transactions last month while also recording a record-breaking annual total of US exchange-listed options
EquiLend鈥檚 virtual event brought together representatives from Stonewain, HQLA岬 and State Street, together with ISLA and the RMA, to discuss their mutual interest in embracing digitisation of securities finance markets
Standard Chartered has unveiled the full management team of its newly-created Financing and Securities Services unit following the appointment of Sunil Daswani as securities lending chief
Clearstream has restructured its banking, funding and financing team with Banu Apers now in the newly-created role of leading all aspects of the securities lending business
The US SEC order found that since Regulation SHO鈥檚 adoption in 2004 Morgan Stanley has 鈥渋mproperly relied on the exception to firmwide netting of all of its positions in a particular equity security through its use of the long and short units鈥
鈥淐onsidering the resulting actions by securities lending market participants, the approach to handling this type of issuance may need to evolve and become more deliberate,鈥 the RMA says in a new whitepaper
LCH, ICE Clear Europe, and LME Clear will be eligible to provide services in the EU after the end of the transition period following the withdrawal of the UK from the EU
The Hong Kong asset manager for private equity funds has hired JVLD's Julian Smith to build its new securities finance operation as head of equity capital markets
FI says the tool primary offers a more efficient system for maintaining data integrity by making it possible to see into the system of positions that were reported earlier and recall incorrectly reported positions