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Markit continues expansion with Cadis purchase


11 May 2012 London and New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Financial information services company Markit has agreed to purchase Cadis, an enterprise data management provider. The deal follows Markit’s acquisition of securities lending data provider Data Explorers in April...
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Clearstream announces April 2012 GSF figures


11 May 2012 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Post-trading services provider Clearstream of the Deutsche Börse Group has released its April 2012 global securities financing (GSF) services figures. For GSF services, the monthly average outstanding reached €570.7 billion...
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Scrabbling for collateral


10 May 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Moody’s are considering industry-wide downgrades, with Morgan Stanley taking a potential $9.6 billion hit. After US financial stocks fell, the bank stated that counterparties may call $7.21 billion in additional collateral...
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Moody’s: Merlin acquisition is risky business


09 May 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Credit ratings agency Moody’s Investor Service has reacted negatively to the Wells Fargo Â鶹´«Ã½ acquisition of Merlin Â鶹´«Ã½ LLC, a prime brokerage and technology provider based in San Francisco and New York...
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Sweden’s NASDAQ collateral management shakeup


08 May 2012 Stockholm
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Sweden-based exchange and clearing company NASDAQ OMX Stockholm (OMX STO) set up three clearing funds to mutualise risk, and revised its collateral management structure so as not to rely too heavily on custodians that are also clearing members...
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FinTuition launches new sec lending course


07 May 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The training company's new securities lending education programme, which is aimed at professionals who want to develop an understanding of the industry, will be taught online...
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Eurex report sizeable growth for Euro repo market


03 May 2012 Zurich
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In April 2012, the international derivatives exchanges of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 10.9 million contracts, a 0.4 million increase year-on-year...
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OneChicago releases April 2012 trading volumes


02 May 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

OneChicago (OCX), an equity finance exchange, today announced that a total of 228,685 security futures contracts were traded in the month of April 2012...
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34 per cent rise in securities lending for OCC


02 May 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

OCC announced that cleared contract volume reached 321.9 million contracts in April, a 5 per cent decrease from the April 2011 volume of 338.6 million contracts...
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NICE to detect securities fraud


01 May 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

NICE Actimize is to provide a hedge fund trading compliance solution designed to monitor the activities of hedge funds across all cash market and derivative asset classes (exchange-traded and OTC)...
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4sight looks to better collateral optimisation


01 May 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

4sight Financial Software is seeking to further its collateral management service with the launching of a collateral optimisation module for its Xpose system...