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Prime broker on board with RSRCHXchange
31 May 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Boutique prime broker Global Prime Partners has mandated RSRCHXchange to give its clients access to institutional research content...

Short sellers poised to play their Trump card
27 May 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Short sellers are hoping to come out as the real winners of the US presidential election by positioning themselves to profit from the grand promises made by candidates to raise the federal minimum wage, according to a Markit report...

Dyson to take on ISLA top job
27 May 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Andrew Dyson has been confirmed as the new CEO of ISLA, following the decision of current incumbent Kevin McNulty to step down after seven years in the post...

FIS hot stocks: 16 May
26 May 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Energy producers and their service providers, along with representatives of the fast food sector, took the brunt of short sales last week, according to the FIS Astec Analytics hot stocks list...

Russia's NSD endures sharp repo drop off
27 May 2016 Moscow
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Russia’s National Settlement Depository suffered a decline in its monthly repo transactions with the Bank of Russia in May...

Exclusive: Challice heads to Pirum
26 May 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Pirum Systems is set to take on Ben Challice as chief operating officer, giving him responsibility for the company’s strategic product and market development...

Tick-tick-tick-tick short selling boom
26 May 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Established watchmakers are failing to re-define their brands in world dominated by smartphones, while emerging wearable technology products are still struggling to win over sceptical consumers, according to Markit’s latest research...

Orange County seeks sec lending provider
25 May 2016 California
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Orange County Employees Retirement System (OCERS) is assessing bids from global custodians to take over the management of its securities lending programme...

LCH and SIX to clear through SIGMA X MTF
24 May 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Clearinghouses LCH and SIX x-clear will both be offering clearing services on the Goldman Sachs SIGMA X MTF platform from July...

RISE launches ‘first’ blockchain 2.0 solution
23 May 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

RISE Financial Technologies claims to have pulled ahead of the pack in the emerging technology arms race with the creation of the next generation of blockchain for the post-trade sector...

Euroclear and Lyxor launch liquidity tool
23 May 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Euroclear and Lyxor Asset Management have teamed up for the launch of an asset liquidity monitoring tool for the fixed income market...

Papenfuß re-elected as chairman of ECSDA
20 May 2016 Warsaw
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Members of the European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA) have re-elected Mathias Papenfuß of Clearstream as chairman...