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Triad builds team to tackle prime brokerage demand
23 September 2015 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Triad Securities has bolstered its prime brokerage sales team with three new hires...

Nearly half of bank’s process costs are wasted
23 September 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Up to 40 percent of banks’ processing costs for trades could be saved by adopting a ‘utility’ model, according a study from Broadridge Financial Solutions...

SunGard secures French reconciliations mandate
22 September 2015 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Generali Vie, a French life insurance company and part of the Generali Group, has launched SunGard’s IntelliMatch Operational Control solution for managing cash and securities reconciliations...

Tech partners create data centre trading hubs
22 September 2015 Chessington, UK
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Digital Realty Trust and GMEX Technologies have paired up to create several hubs for new product exchanges and trading venues...

BBH names new managing partner
22 September 2015 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Brown Brothers Harriman has appointed William Tyree as its managing partner, effective 1 January 2016...

BCS sparks new partnership with Euroclear
21 September 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BCS Financial Group, the largest securities broker on the Moscow Exchange, can now access Euroclear through BCS Prime Brokerage...

CTA and macro managers are winners of Fed week
21 September 2015 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

A lack of guidance by the Federal Reserve following its meeting on 17 September has played into the hands of global macro and commodity trading advisor managers, according to Lyxor’s Weekly Brief...

BBH improves settlement processes
21 September 2015 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Brown Brother Harriman (BBH) has become the first global custodian to go live on the new Omgeo ALERT GC Direct Service...

CSCS to improve market liquidity
21 September 2015 Lagos
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Nigeria’s Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS) is looking to boost market liquidity through its securities lending and borrowing and post-trade allocation process flows to capital market operators...

Global Prime Partners receives Hong Kong licence
18 September 2015 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Global Prime Partners has received regulatory approval from the Securities & Future Commission of Hong Kong...

Prominent ex-politician joins Intercontinental Exchange
17 September 2015 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

William Hague has joined the boards of Intercontinental Exchange and ICE Futures Europe and will assume the role of chairman of ICE Futures Europe in January 2016...

Pension funds’ international investments increase
17 September 2015 Luxembourg
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Pension funds around the world are increasingly looking beyond their borders to address their investment needs, according to the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) in its new global pension fund report...