High street retailer JCPenney and Snap, owner of photo sharing app Snapchat, led the FIS Astec Analytics hot stocks list for the Americas for the week starting 21 August
A common argument against securities lending鈥攖hat it supports short sellers and so undermines the value of long only portfolios鈥攊s without foundation, Simon Waddington of State Street has argued
Brazilian exchange and clearinghouse B3 has moved corporate bonds and equities lending to its new multi-asset clearing platform, in the latest phase of its pos-trade overhaul
A second broker-dealer has been fined by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for securities lending violations relating to the facilitation of naked short selling
The European Post-Trade Forum has outlined how to improve EU post-trade services including clearing, settlement and collateral management by in a report written in May and released last week