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Pirum links up with BNY Mellon to improve trade efficiency
05 April 2013 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BNY Mellon’s global collateral services business has upgraded its AccessEdge collateral management portal with a newly-established link to Pirum’s new triparty required value (RQV) processing service...

Deepak Abraham is new prime hire for BofA Merrill Lynch
05 April 2013 Hong Kong
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Former Morgan Stanley employee Deepak Abraham has been hired as head of capital strategy in Asia Pacific for Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s prime brokerage division...

SEC enforcement and regulatory practice to join Sidley Austin
04 April 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A group of 11 lawyers—ten partners and one counsel—will be joining the Sidley Austin law firm in multiple offices...

Millennium nabs Barclays prime services head
03 April 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

It has been reported that Ajay Nagpal, previously the head of Barclays Capital prime services business, has left the bank to join Millennium, the $18 billion hedge fun run by Israel Englander...

IOSCO is under new rule
02 April 2013 Sydney
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Greg Medcraft, chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, took over as chair of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) board at its Sydney meeting...

Q1 volume up 67 percent for OneChicago
02 April 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Jenna Jones

OneChicago’s Q1 trading volume has increased 67 percent compared with 2012...

OCC on track with sec lending CCP activity
02 April 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

OCC's securities lending CCP activities saw a 15 percent increase in new loans over March 2012 with 95,686 transactions last month...

BNY Mellon names Sakati head of strategy and business development
02 April 2013 New York and Boston
Reporter: Jenna Jones

BNY Mellon has appointed Dean Sakati to the newly created position of head of strategy and business development for securities finance with the firm’s Global Collateral Services business...

Itaú BBA nabs Charles Stewart from Morgan Stanley
28 March 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Charles Stewart has moved from Morgan Stanley to become the CEO of Itaú BBA International, the London division of Brazilian investment bank Itaú BBA...

Omgeo appoints three to board
28 March 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Omgeo has appointed Edward Hazel of Goldman Sachs, Richard Taggart of State Street and Susan Cosgrove of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) to its board of managers...

Calypso expands quantitative team with David Kelly
27 March 2013 San Francisco
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Following on from Calypso Technology’s opening of a Madrid office, the firm also announced the appointment of David Kelly as director of financial engineering...

Jefferies strengthens securities finance team
27 March 2013 London and Hong Kong
Reporter: Jenna Jones

A source close to Jefferies has confirmed that Colin Bugler and Ina Kim have been recruited to the firm's securities finance team...