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Data Explorers Global Top 10 Shorts and Squeezes
25 May 2010 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

A quick snapshot of some of the companies attracting interest from the industry at present. For more information, graphs or statistics contact Data Explorers.

Austrians extend naked short ban
25 May 2010 Vienna
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The Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) extends the current temporary ban on naked short selling of shares of Erste Group Bank AG, Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG, UNIQA Versicherungen AG and WIENER STAEDTISCHE Versicherung AG

SunGard integrates AQS Trade Data
24 May 2010 London
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SunGard has integrated executed, market-driven trade data derived from Quadriserv's AQS securities lending market into SunGard's Astec Analytics platform, its solution for securities lending performance measurement and program management.

SSgA's Blake to Succeed Brakke
13 May 2010 Boston
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State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management business of State Street Corporation, today announced that Lynn Blake, a 23-year SSgA veteran will assume the role as global head of Index Equity following the retirement of Paul Brakke,

Data Explorers - US Short Alert
10 May 2010 New York
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The latest Data Explorers US Short Alert looks at Sears Holding Corp and Nutri System Inc.

The Dollar Thrifty Battle
07 May 2010 New York
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Industry Snapshot from Data Explorers - Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Avis Budget Group and Hertz Global Holdings and Dillard's Inc

SIX Telekurs bolsters market position
26 April 2010 Stamford
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In a major step toward fulfilling the company's strategic objectives in the area of evaluated pricing services, SIX Telekurs has entered into an agreement with CSV, Incorporated to purchase its evaluated pricing business.

Citi Expands Asia Pacific Prime Finance Team
26 April 2010 Hong Kong
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Citi recently announced several new appointments to its Asia Pacific Prime Finance team, underlining growing demand for hedge fund services in the region. The eight new appointments are located in Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney.

Hedge fund group Marshall Wace selects State Street
23 April 2010 Dublin
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State Street, has been appointed to provide investment services to hedge fund group Marshall Wace for its new equity-neutral exchange traded fund (ETF) MW TOPS Global Alpha.

Redwood Asset Management chooses CIBC Mellon GSS
22 April 2010 Toronto
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CIBC Mellon Global Securities Services today announced that it has been chosen by Redwood Asset Management, manager of the Redwood Funds, Ark Funds and SciVest Funds to provide asset servicing solutions for a number of the firm's investment funds.

Clearstream organizes Securities Financing Conference in Asia
13 April 2010 Luxembourg
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Clearstream is holding its first Global Securities Financing (GSF) conference Asia, in Singapore on April 22. The keynote speaker will be Ng Nam Sin, Assistant Managing Director, Development Group, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

Knight Implements Loanet
18 February 2010 London
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Knight Clearing Services LLC, has recently implemented SunGard's Loanet securities finance solution suite to help manage the requirements of its front-office, accounting, settlement and clearance and regulatory operations within its newly formed secu