The securities lending matching platform, EquiLend, says the Abbey National Group has joined as a participant. Eqlend says the troubled British bank is the first UK domiciled bank to join. "As we broaden our focus outward in this new phase
EuroMTS has launched MTS Austrian Market, a segment of EuroMTS. It lists all Austrian government bonds with a minimum outstanding size of at least Euros 3 billion. MTS says the new segment will complement trading of Austrian benchmark government bonds
BondVision today announced the listing of inflation linked bonds issued by Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (CADES). The bonds will be available on the BondVision system from tomorrow, 20 May. BondVision Dealers, who are already committed to quote inflation
Commerzbank has devised a new investment certificate the Commerzbank Europe ZinsPlus, based on the FTSE Euro Corporate Bond Index for retail as well as institutional investors in Germany. The aims is to give them the opportunity to invest in investment
Stewart Wright, executive director of the banking business at Clearstream, left the Luxembourg based ICSD for the last time last night. Wright, who joined the then Cedel in January 1995, is said to want to spend more time with his
JPMorgan has formed a new team within its Clearance and Collateral Management division in New York to introduce a regulatory cash collateral service targeted at broker dealers who need to comply with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s customer protection
ICAP, the inter dealer broker, has completed its acquisition of the majority of BrokerTec's trading operations from the fourteen investment banks that founded it. The acquisition, which was announced in January this year but initially agreed between the parties two
EuroMTS and Euronext have formed a joint venture to launch what they say is the first "genuinely independent and transparent pan European government bond indices." The indices, collectively known as the EuroMTS Index, are based on real time tradable prices
Eurex says it expects the number of participants in the Swiss franc repo market on Eurex Repo to double over the next two years as the Swiss National Bank (SNB) steers its Lombard facility through the platform from next year.