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Have short sellers reacted to widening European CDS spreads?

European credit spreads have hit their widest level this year as fears continue to grow over whether Greece will default and/or leave the Euro in a disorderly fashion. The so called ‘Grexit’ is driving up the cost of credit insurance...

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The dangers of Dodd Frank (165)

Unless the proposed U.S. rules are changed, revenue from securities lending could reduce by 30-50%. Sections 165/6 of Dodd Frank suggest new ways...

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Will Duff Gordon

Will has worked in the Securities Financing industry for many years specialising in data analysis for Hedge Funds and Pension Funds.

Len Welter

At Morgan Stanley Len was responsible for the global development of new securities lending analytic tools and trading systems

David Carruthers

David worked as a fund manager, risk manager and risk consultant with experience in equities, fixed income, currencies, cash management and derivatives

Andrew Dyson

Andrew was Head of Business Development and Risk for Securities Lending at Prudential M&G. Previously he worked at DB's Agency Securities Lending Business

Neerav Aggarwal

Neerav is a quantitative analyst who specialises in securities lending and short selling.

Neerav has a MSC from the University of Edinburgh

Yi Wu

Yi is a quantitative analyst who specialises in securities lending and short selling

Yi has worked at Barrie and Hibbert and has a MSC from the University of Edinburgh.