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Short Selling - Guest Post

Posted 6 December 2010 - 9:00am by Roy Zimmerhansl

I have attached below an excerpt from a FREE ebook by Conrad C Vincent entitled "Stories in Credit Analysis" that you can download by clicking here.   I came across Vincent via LinkedIn and you can see his profile here.   Conrad includes time spent at Morgan Stanley and Moodys in his CV.

To Paris, for a marquee name Societe Generale Securities Services update on T2S, regulation, life, the universe and everything

Posted 2 December 2010 - 4:16pm by Brian Bollen

England's 2018 World Cup bid: I've seen more passion at a Waitrose checkout

Posted 2 December 2010 - 3:42pm by Brian Bollen

Blackmail? WikiLeaks' Assange claims to have power to "take down a bank or two."

Posted 2 December 2010 - 1:45pm by Visitor

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claims to Forbes in an exclusive interview to have a deadly dossier on a major bank full of evidence

Securities Lending – Truth or Fiction?

Posted 1 December 2010 - 9:57pm by Roy Zimmerhansl

Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking at the Global Custody Forum in London.  I was a panellist on the securities lending panel alongside a very strong group of fellow speakers:  Sarah Nicholson, who is responsible for securities finance at Aviva Investors, Tony Baldwin who heads up funding at Daiwa Capital Markets, which includes repo trading and treasury, and David Carruthers, Segment Director at DataExplorers.  Our fearless panel leader was Sunil Daswani, head of sales  and relationship management for securities lending at Northern Trust. 

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Greenspan shoots and no-one saves

Posted 26 November 2010 - 10:18am by Craig McGlashan

An occasional blog on the past and our fading memories

The internet may well be the future of journalism and newspapers the past but that is not the criticism of the printed word that many perceive it to be.

In a future without newspaper you would never have the pleasure of finding a five-year-old edition of the Financial Times when searching for something completely different in the Fundamentals archives.

Pension Protection Fund Approves Securities Lending

Posted 18 November 2010 - 11:39pm by Roy Zimmerhansl

Readers of my newsletter "Roy's Random Rap"* will have seen the news last week that the Pension Protection Fund has approved securities lending and repo as part of their Investment Principles.  The editor of Fundamentals subsequently interviewed CIO Ian McKinlay to get more of the background.  You can read the article here. 

AIFM Directive – An alternative future

Posted 16 November 2010 - 4:43pm by Craig McGlashan

This morning I had the pleasure of attending a briefing on the final provisions for the Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive (AIFMD) by Katten Muchin Rosenman Cornish LLP, a legal firm specialising in the financial services industry.

Stock Lending Today - An Industry Under Siege! by Roy Zimmerhansl

Posted 9 November 2010 - 2:09pm by Roy Zimmerhansl

This is my response - join the Debate!

Securities Lending - Response to New York Times Article (Part Three)

Posted 1 November 2010 - 7:30pm by Roy Zimmerhansl

This is the third and final post responding to the New York Times article and Forbes blog post two weeks ago.  You can read part one of my response here and part two here.