Contributor: Karl Loomes
This blog post was originally published on TabbFORUM. In a two-part story, we examine the past and present of securities lending data. In part one, we discuss an example that illustrates the importance of intraday data and how real-time data can make the difference on the bottom line. This is the Facebook story.... read more
Contributor: Eric Wicart
This blog post was originally published on TabbFORUM. It is well known that Asia is leading the world in the proportion of trades achieving same-day affirmation (SDA); most Asian trading venues comfortably exceed SDA rates of 90%, whereas the U.S. trading venues currently achieve 70%, on average. The automation of middle-office processes in Asia’s securities markets continues to be implemented with great vigor. This trend is undoubtedly being propelled by forthcoming regulatory requirements; yet there are other factors also driving the development.... read more
Contributor: Karl Loomes
The investigation in “Effectiveness of Short Selling Bans on Minimizing Stock Decline” looks at two main areas that are often cited as the benefits of short selling restrictions: actual stock market performance and the volatility of the stock market.... read more
Contributor: Jane Milner
In the aftermath of the global credit crisis, hedge funds and their investors began to concentrate on counterparty risk and their exposure to service providers. Many hedge funds, if large enough, began to spread their positions across multiple prime brokers. At the same time, the larger firms’ appetite for offering prime brokerage services to small hedge funds was diminishing. This presented opportunities for some of the smaller firms and created an opening for new prime services entrants to the market.... read more
Contributor: Karl Loomes
Better than expected earnings results are usually the cause for celebration. It is par for the course surely, that to one extent or another, a share price should tick-up if the numbers are good? Yet since rare earth elements (REE) producer Molycorp (MCP) reported its numbers this week, which were generally seen as strong in most areas, the share price has only gone one way – down! Of course it is no mystery why this is; the day after posting these buoyant figures Molycorp disclosed to investors that it was undergoing a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation pertaining to the accuracy of its public disclosures. Ouch. Nobody gets happy over good results if you are suspicious they may not be accurate in the first place.... read more
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