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Lou Lebedin and Gerard Muldoon join Doran Jones
14 May 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Consultancy firm Doran Jones has strengthened its prime brokerage offering with the addition of Lou Lebedin and Gerard Muldoon. The pair join as partners...

TFL pension fund keeps trust in J.P. Morgan
14 May 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Transport for London (TFL) Pension Fund has reappointed J.P. Morgan as global custodian for all its managed assets...

Let’s revisit single stock futures, says Finadium
14 May 2013 Concord
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Alternatives for financing positions are getting a more receptive hearing than ever before, declared Finadium in its May report...

MTS to launch bond platform for US institutional investors
14 May 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

MTS, a European electronic fixed income marketplace, is to launch a platform for US institutional investors...

Rob Ferguson becomes new CASLA president
10 May 2013 Toronto
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Rob Ferguson has been elected president of the Canadian Securities Lending Association. The CIBC Mellon head of global securities lending takes over from Reeve Serman...

Clearstream sees GSF rise by 2 percent
10 May 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

For Global Securities Financing (GSF) services, Clearstream recorded a monthly average outstanding of €583.8 billion in April 2013...

BNP Paribas hires Wargo for North American lending team
09 May 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed Lance Wargo as head of securities lending in North America, a newly created position based in New York...

Northern Trust hires Bradley Blackwell for Hong Kong
09 May 2013 Hong Kong
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Northern Trust has boosted its staff in Hong Kong to include Bradley Blackwell, who is the new sales and relationship management for securities lending clients in APAC...

Quadriserv grows relationship with SunGard, rebuilds board
08 May 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SunGard has built on its relationship with Quadriserv and will now provide hosting services, operational support, and software development for Quadriserv’s AQS platform...

ICMA European Repo Council: “FTT will be disruptive”
07 May 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A paper from the ICMA’s European Repo Council explains the importance of collateral whilst highlighting how the proposed Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) would impact its movement...

Collateral management at risk of becoming a commodity
07 May 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Seventy-five percent of financial institutions believe collateral management has become, or is at risk of becoming a commodity, said SIX Securities Services...

BlackRock’s David Geffen goes it alone
02 May 2013 San Francisco
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

After departing BlackRock in 2011, David Geffen officially announced the creation of his new consultancy firm for hedge funds...