11 August 2014London Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe
The first-order effect of the global effort to increase regulation of fixed-income trading has been to increase regionalisation in the treatment of collateral at European and US clearinghouses, according to TABB Group...
Balances on loan for US equities have risen 70 percent since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, according to an analyst at SunGard’s Astec Analytics...
The 2014 version of Clearstream Banking Luxembourg (CBL)’s BIS-IOSCO disclosure framework for securities settlement services (SSS) has been published...
The funded status of the typical US corporate pension plan declined 1.2 percentage points in July 2014 to 90.8 percent, as the steep drop in equity prices at the end of July sent asset values lower, according to ISSG...
04 August 2014Chicago Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe
OCC has announced a 10 percent increase in cleared contract volume for the month of July 2014 compared to July 2013, despite securities lending activity being down 14 percent in new loans...