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Securities lending, repurchase agreements (repos) and reverse repurchase agreements (reverse repos) all of which involve the movement of cash by one party and securities by the other party, are important [...]

THE STUDY IN BRIEF In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, many efforts are under way to improve the stability and resilience of the global financial system. One particular [...]

When it filed for bankruptcy, Lehman Brothers had nearly one million derivative contracts outstanding. This article tells the story of some of those contracts, and the lessons that can be [...]

Byline: KIRK PINHO Redico LLC is betting that build-to-suit development may be on its way back. The Southfield-based real estate company is talking to prospective buyers and tenants in the [...]

Byline: Staff ReportsEquity Residential reached an agreement with affiliates of Bank of America and Barclays PLC to extend to April 19, 2012 the period during which the company has the [...]

Byline: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld J.P. Morgan had a product up its sleeve for its broker-dealers on August 4. That was the date it put the servicing of more than one million [...]

Ever since Lehman Brothers collapsed and brought the global financial markets to their knees, the phrase 'subprime' has unsettled regulators, policy-makers, investors and even certain bankers. So South African banking [...]

The Government is planning to give a big boost to infrastructure projects and award 8,000 km road projects within the current financial year. It has reworked certain modalities of the [...]

Indiana State Teachers Indiana State Teachers' Retirement Fund, Indianapolis, hired BlackRock to manage $100 million in active Treasury inflation-protected securities, said Molly E. Deuberry, director of communications and outreach for [...]

Central clearing houses should take on much of the responsibility for clearing and settling over-the-counter derivative contracts rather than intermediaries, according to the Investment Management Association. The association was responding [...]

The conventional wisdom about the bailouts of 2008 goes something like this. Federal regulators started off on the right foot by bailing out Bear Stearns and midwifing its sale to [...]

TIP UPDATE: Phoenix reveals that it will retain the 'lost' Lehman Brothers contract after all. Business continuity provider Phoenix IT revealed that it has renegotiated an agreement to provide services [...]

VeriFone Holdings Inc., a San Jose maker of point of sale terminals, says a financial plan it signed in June of last year with a Lehman Brothers unit is in [...]

Charming Shoppes Inc., a direct marketer and retailer of women's plus-size apparel, has hired Banc of America Securities and Lehman Brothers as financial advisors to help it explore strategic alternatives [...]

Chalk up another leveraged buyout casualty to 2007s debt market problems. The Blackstone Group and General Electric Capital, a unit of General Electric, terminated their $1.8 billion buyout of PHH [...]

Pummeled by the deteriorating credit environment, Freddie Mac said Tuesday that it 'is seriously considering' a 50% cut in its fourth-quarter common stock dividend and that it has hired Goldman [...]

DIAMOND FOODS INC. hired LEHMAN BROTHERS to identify potential buyers, according to The Financial Times, citing both a banker and a private-capital source that said they had knowledge of the [...]

Chicago's US Futures Exchange announced last week it will list cash settled futures contracts derived from Lehman Brothers' US Treasury Index, US Corporate High Yield Index, US Credit 7-10 Year [...]

Silver-McCann Buys The Barons Apartments in Texas Silver-McCann Apartment Group II L.P. has announced the acquisition of The Barons Apartments in the Dallas submarket of Mesquite, Texas. The 508- unit, [...]

CHICAGO -- The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, looking to issue at least $700 million of new-money bonds and possibly refund more than $1 billion of additional outstanding debt, has [...]

Some hostile takeovers develop a life of their own, whisking the parties into undreamed-of territory as each side reacts to the unexpected. But when BASF pulled off the largest-ever unsolicited [...]

Another brokerage client bows to pressure from one of the world's largest money managers. As reported in Traders Magazine last month, Deutsche Bank Securities has joined Lehman Brothers in agreeing [...]

The recent flurry of new types of hybrid capital securities in the US has bankers jubilantly predicting a rush of similar securities in 2006, following months of gridlock after the [...]

FIDO Drops First Shoe *Fidelity Investments' decision to pay Lehman Brothers from its own pocket is bad news for most of the equity trading industry, according to a report. 'It [...]

New York-based FIX vendor TransactTools last week completed its fixed income certification process for Lehman Brothers' fixed income, using its OpenFIX testing service. TransactTools, one of the four vendors selected [...]

Sanchez Computer Associates Inc. said Lehman Brothers Bank, the banking unit of Lehman Brothers Inc., has become a customer of Sanchez' e-Profile subsidiary. Lehman, which plans to go into online [...]

Brookfield Financial Properties, Inc. recently announced that Lehman Brothers has signed a long-term lease for 102,000 square feet at One World Financial Center. The agreement covers the entire 27th, 28th [...]