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Nigeria takes control of margin lending
14 June 2013 Abuja
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission and the country's central bank have introduced a set of rules to regulate margin lending...

EACH wants CCP exemption from bail-ins
14 June 2013 Brussels and New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The European Association of CCP Clearing Houses (EACH) is urging regulators to exempt CCPs from the bail-in provisions of the banking recovery and resolution framework proposal...

J.P. Morgan’s Jay Davis takes to Concept
13 June 2013 Garden City, New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Concept Capital Markets has recruited Jay Davis from J.P. Morgan as senior vice president for client service in its prime brokerage services group. The firm has also opened a new office in San Francisco...

SEC fines CBOE for short selling failures
13 June 2013 Washington DC
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Chicago Board Options Exchange will pay a $6 million penalty and implement major remedial measures for “[failing] to enforce or even fully comprehend rules to prevent abusive short selling”...

SGX to introduce circuit breakers
13 June 2013 Singapore
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Singapore Exchange is consulting the public on proposed circuit breakers for the securities market. Subject to regulatory approval and industry readiness, it plans to introduce them by the end of 2013...

Tesco director to take over as new NAPF chairman
12 June 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Ruston Smith has been appointed chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds. He will succeed Mark Hyde Harrison, whose two-year tenure ends at the NAPF Annual General Meeting on 18 October...

Hedge fund association to lose CEO
12 June 2013 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The CEO of AIMA is stepping down from his role at the end of the year. Andrew Baker has been CEO since the beginning of 2009. The association is in the process of finding his successor...

Societe Generale relocates LLoyd Michaels
12 June 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Societe Generale Corporate Investment Bank has extended the role of LLoyd Michaels, in efforts to promote a synthetic alternative to prime brokerage...

BofE wards off 'private interest' CCPs
12 June 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Bank of England has released a new article on central counterparties in light of its new responsibilities for the supervision of securities settlement systems and CCPs in the UK...

Italian fund manager names global custodian
11 June 2013 Milan
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

RBC Investor & Treasury Services will provide securities lending, global custody and collateral management services to Polaris Investment after being named the fund manager’s global custodian...

UBS appoints ICSD for its investment bank business
11 June 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

UBS has appointed Clearstream as its primary International Central Securities Depository (ICSD), in a move that will consolidate the majority of its securities custody, settlement, and financing business...

The top five trends in prime brokerage
11 June 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Finadium and SunGard have identified five key trends in prime brokerage services and technology that they say are driving new approaches to client service to help firms achieve agile growth...