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SS&C GlobeOp sees uptick in hedge fund index
12 February 2015 Luxembourg
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SS&C GlobeOp has released its figures for January 2015, reporting a gross return of 1.18 percent on its Hedge Fund Performance Index, an increase from 0.11 percent in December 2014...

SNS Bank extends SunGard mandate
11 February 2015 Utrecht
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SNS Bank has mandated SunGard to upgrade its treasury and risk infrastructure in an extension of the firms’ ongoing relationship...

Russian NSD reports bumper Q4 2014
11 February 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The Russian CSD, the National Settlement Depository, has released its results for Q4 2014, reporting an increase in repo transactions and a record high of securities used as collateral...

2015 to be year of the securities financing transaction
11 February 2015 Basel, Switzerland
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) will complete its regulatory overhaul of securities finance transactions this year, according to chair Mark Carney...

Boost benefits from dip in oil prices
10 February 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Boost’s range of short and leveraged oil and natural gas exchange traded products are now the most liquid in Europe, as the notional volume across the whole platform hit a record high...

IIFM promotes Islamic alternative to repo
10 February 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The International Islamic Financial Market’s MCM Agreement is a viable Islamic alternative to repo, according to speakers at a London event to raise awareness of the agreement...

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...