According to IHS Markit, January was most revenue generating month for US equity finance on record, with $41 million of the $453 million total coming from GameStops short squeeze
MarketAxess has reported its monthly trading volume for January 2021 totalled $575.3 billion, which consisted of $236.5 billion in credit volume and $338.8 billion in rates volume
The utilisation of CDS Post-Trade Modernisation settlement platform and Euroclears Collateral Highway will enable market participants to mobilise collateral assets across repo, securities lending, cleared and uncleared margin accounts
Convertible hedging may have increased amid the surging share price, which partly explains the increase in share borrowing despite the apparent face-melting short squeeze, says IHS Markits Sam Pierson
The US SEC has offered a thinly-veiled warning to Robinhood that it will be investigating its decision to ban investors from buying several stocks that have surged in recent weeks
GameStops skyrocketing share price, led by retail investors mobilised on a Reddit forum, has captured the worlds attention with headlines citing short sellers' losses running into the billions of dollars, but does this tell the whole story?