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BofA Merrill Lynch upgrades prime brokerage
28 July 2014 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is moving its prime brokerage business away from its current system, ML Prime...

BNY Mellon enjoys seasonally higher sec lending revenue
25 July 2014 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BNY Mellon’s Q2 2014 investment service fees totalled $1.7 billion, a 1 percent increase on the previous quarter, partly thanks to seasonally higher securities lending revenue...

State Street's securities finance revenue soars
24 July 2014 Boston
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

State Street’s securities finance revenue hit $147 million in Q2 2014, an impressive 72.9 percent increase over the first quarter of the year...

US investment bank chooses Syn~FTT
23 July 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

GBST is to roll out of its Syn~FTT solution at a top 10 US global investment bank...

Deutsche Bank partners with Clearstream and Euroclear
22 July 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Deutsche Bank has gone into partnership with Clearstream and Euroclear to help clients consolidate, optimise and more efficiently assign their collateral inventory as part of the TARGET2-Securities (T2S) initiative...

DataLend's top earners
21 July 2014 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

DataLend has released its latest list of the top earning securities lending equities in the US, UK, Europe and the Far East/Australia Pacific region...

Markit review
17 July 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The most expensive companies have consistently underperformed in US markets over the last two years, according to a report by Markit...

Exclusive: Rajen Shah heads to State Street
15 July 2014 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Former Citi executive Rajen Shah, who left the bank approximately three months ago, has resurfaced at State Street, a source has exclusively revealed...

SunGard's hottest stocks
15 July 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The hottest stocks from around the globe have been compiled by SunGard’s Astec Analytics...

Short selling bans for Banco Espírito Santo shares
15 July 2014 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

A temporary short selling ban on Banco Espírito Santo in the UK will come to an end at 23.59 on 15 July, following a steep drop in the price of the Portuguese bank’s shares...

Hedge fund flows hit 6-month low for SS&C
14 July 2014 Connecticut
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for June 2014 measured 1.16 percent, while hedge fund flows as measured by its Capital Movement Index declined 1.77 percent in July...

Canadian funds get new sec lending rules
14 July 2014 Toronto
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

This was previously a fund’s total assets. New non-redeemable investment funds must comply with the rule change by 22 September. Existing funds have until 21 September 2015 to comply...