Savvy investors are leveraging exchange-traded funds that track the Russell 2000 Index to access the juicy revenues available in the US small cap equities market through securities lending programs...
The rise of local institutional investors in Africa has allowed for capital markets on the continent to continue to develop, despite overall market slowdown...
Global Prime Partners has made a spate of senior hires, including Mike Ward as head of new business development, ahead of the launch of its new structures products business...
The new Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect, set to go live on 5 December, has been praised by securities lending market participants as a potential booster for market liquidity...
Blockchain consortium R3 is seeking to recapture investor confidence after a spate of high profile banks withdrew their support for the project by signing on Calypso Technology to develop a capital markets post-trade blockchain application...
Greater diversification of counterparties in the repo market can halt the decline in liquidity, according to Roberto Verrillo of trading platform Elixium...
Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking has become the latest major banking group to turn to a fintech firm to assist with the increasing burden of regulatory compliance...
Hedge funds are continuing to grow overall assets under management in 2016 in the face of skittish investor sentiment, according to Preqin鈥檚 latest research...
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission is aiming to reinforce market stability through new regulatory proposals that would require securities lending participants to ensure cash reinvestment strategies are 鈥渟ufficiently liquid鈥...