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Chi-East rolls on
26 January 2011 Singapore
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Chi-East, the independent, pan-Asian trading venue, has completed the roll out of its non-displayed trading platform for securities listed in Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore...

Deutsche Börse taps Cinnober
26 January 2011 Frankfurt
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Deutsche Börse and Cinnober have announced a licensing agreement that foresees the implementation of Cinnober’s state-of-the-art market surveillance technology at both the Deutsche Börse cash market Xetra and the derivatives market Eurex Exchange

DB selected by MOSERS for securities lending
24 January 2011 Missouri
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Missouri State Employees' Retirement System (MOSERS) has selected Deutsche Bank to provide securities lending services...

Japanese FSA extend short selling restrictions
24 January 2011 Tokyo
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The Japanese Financial Services Authority has extended the temporary restrictions on short selling to April 30, 2011...

Data Explorers: A look at forthcoming US earnings
23 January 2011 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Data Explorers highlight companies announcing results this week where our long and short flow highlights interesting trends, including Amazon, Netflix , Yahoo!, Verizon Communications, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, Starbucks Corp, Lockheed Martin Corp and....

BNP Paribas automates with BondLend
23 January 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

BondLend, has announced that BNP Paribas is the first broker dealer to use Straight-Through Processing for their Fixed Income Mark-to-Market service. Straight-Through Processing facilitates reconciliation actions on BondLend’s comparison service...

Ministers announce expansion of Fidessa plc's Belfast centre
21 January 2011 Belfast
Reporter: Justin Lawson

First Minister Rt. Hon. Peter D. Robinson MLA and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness MP, MLA announced that Fidessa plc is to create 90 high-quality financial services technology jobs in Belfast today.

BlackRock appoints Seidenberg to Board
20 January 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

BlackRock, Inc. have announced that Ivan G. Seidenberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Verizon, has joined the Company’s Board of Directors.

New securities lending report from Finadium
19 January 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

A new report from Finadium shows that US plan sponsors continue to work on the complex challenge of defining best practices with their securities lending, collateral management and custody providers...

First transactions on EquiLend via OCC
19 January 2011 New York
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

EquiLend clients have utilised the EquiLend platform to execute equity trade transactions which were centrally cleared via the OCC (Options Clearing Corporation)...

Three new hires at CIBC
18 January 2011 Toronto
Reporter: ben Wilkie

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has appointed three new staff to its prime brokerage business...

Citi moves back into profit
18 January 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Citigroup has reported fourth quarter 2010 net income of $1.3 billion, or $0.04 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $7.6 billion, or $0.33 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter 2009...