News and Notes

BBC: UK loses EU short selling appeal

AcadiaSoft, Inc. Volumes Sky-Rocket to 60,000 Active Agreements on Its MarginSphere® Service – a 600% Increase Over Past 9 Months

UBS Fund Services Collaborates with SunGard and HazelTree

Reuters: UBS outsources to Murex and Ion

Euroclear’s Collateral Highway grows 12 percent to EUR 787 billion in 2013

Interactive Data And Matrix Applications Help Asset Managers To Facilitate Margining of Forward-Settling Trades

EurexOTC Clear gains strong support among sell- and buy-side firms

Fitch: US tri-party repo market will contract in 2014

Clearstream GSF up 7% in Dec 2013 over Dec 2012

SLT: OneChicago CEO cites securities lending in 2013 success

Reuters: no fee increases yet for collateral transformations

OCC continued securities lending rise in Dec 2013

Fed Reverse Repo Facility goes to $3b cap and 3 bps rate

EU reaches agreement on CSD regulation

CloudMargin Releases New White Paper on the Impact of CCPs to the OTC Derivatives Industry

FSB issues update on global adherence to regulatory and supervisory standards

Clearstream extends the ICSD settlement day and improves US market coverage

World Federation of Exchanges launches cyber security committee

ISDA releases Standard Initial Margin Model (SIMM) for Non-Cleared Derivatives

Clearsteam GSF up 10% in Nov 2013 year over year

Northern Trust upgrades collateral management system to include mortage-backed securities

HKEX clears first OTC trade on Calypso

BNY Mellon and Bloomberg link for collateral management processing

HKEx and SGX cooperate on RMB internationalisation and connectivity

4Sight white paper: Financial Firms can Maintain Profitability by Optimising Collateral, Regulatory Capital and CCP Selection

BNY Mellon offers outsourced liquidity administration

OCC continues rise in securities lending

OpenGamma introduces margining solution for CCP members to replicate CCP margin calculations

TMX Technology Solutions to provide NetOTC with a suite of technology products and services

Lombard Risk announces COLLINE collateral optimisation module

Korea Financial Services Commission lifts ban on short selling financials

Federal Reserve offers 28-day term deposits with full allotment at 26 basis points through its Term Deposit Facility

Clearstream GSF up 5% in October 2013 year over year

Russia's NSD Repository Processes More than 6,400 Messages during First Three Days of Mandatory Reporting

AgFe acquires Autumn Capital

OCC seclending up 26% year over year

Federal Reserve and other central banks convert temporary bilateral liquidity swap arrangements to standing arrangements

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Adds Securities Lending Functionality to GainsKeeper FundTax™

BNY Mellon releases new Liquidity Aggregator tool

Tim Keenan Appointed Global Product Manager of BondLend

Omgeo Partners with TriOptima and AcadiaSoft to Streamline Collateral Management Processes

BNYM and CIBC merge securities lending desks

DataLend Passes $10 Trillion in Securities Lending Inventory Value

EquiLend and BondLend to Launch New Securities Finance Trading Platform

CACEIS launches Collateral Express, an integrated collateral management product

CPSS and IOSCO issue a consultative document on quantitative disclosure by central counterparties

Lombard Risk posts financial results

SEC launches market data website

Switzerland's SIX to self-regulate short selling

Markit and SL-x tie up