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Cantor Fitzgerald appoints two
10 February 2015 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Cantor Fitzgerald has appointed Brendan Donnelly and Mohil Gupta as managing directors who both join from Bank of America Merrill Lynch...

Brazilian CCP reports January success
09 February 2015 Rio de Janeiro
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The Barazilian central counterparty, BM&FBovespa, has reported 132,115 securities lending transactions for January 2015...

New property portal On The Market
06 February 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The launch of On the Market has marked the entry of a third online property portal in the UK backed by agents, in an attempt to break the duopoly of the two largest players; Rightmove and Zoopla...

Private equity firms acquire stake in Pirum
05 February 2015 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Five Arrows Principal Investments and Camwell Management have agreed to acquire an interest in post-trade provider Pirum Systems for an undisclosed sum...

Larry Albaugh arrives at eSecLending
05 February 2015 Boston
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Larry Albaugh has joined eSecLending as vice president and head of project management...

Decline in US pension plans, says BNY Mellon
05 February 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The funded status of typical US corporate pension plans declined by 4.9 percentage points to 82.4 percent in January, according to BNY Mellon’s Investment Strategy and Solutions Group...

Dave Tomlinson joins BorrowersFirst as president
05 February 2015 Texas
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Dave Tomlinson has joined BorrowersFirst, a lending platform, as its president and CEO and has also been appointed to the firm’s board of directors...

4sight improves triparty collateral functions
05 February 2015 Edinburgh
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

4sight software has launched a new triparty functionality to support its securities finance and collateral management system...

Good start to 2015 for Eurex Repo
04 February 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Eurex Repo reported a positive start to 2014, with its January figures showing an increase of 11 percent across all markets...

SmartStream buys IBM’s Algorithmics collateral system
04 February 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SmartStream Technologies has acquired IBM’s Algorithmics Collateral Solution, including all assets related to software and support...

SEC names acting investment management director
04 February 2015 Washington DC
Reporter: Becky Butcher

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has named David Grim as acting director of the investment management division...

CalPERS receives $301 million in damages
04 February 2015 Sacramento
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The CalPERS is poised to receive approximately $301 million in damages from S&P's and parent company McGraw-Hill Financial, as a result of settlements in cases against S&P that stemmed from its rating of mortgage-backed and other securities...