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New CEO for Stonewain
08 February 2013 Berkeley Heights
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Armeet Sandhu has been promoted to CEO at securities finance software and solutions provider Stonewain Systems...

Salvatore Cangialosi joins Albert Fried’s prime lending division
07 February 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Salvatore Cangialosi has been recruited for Albert Fried & Company’s prime lending services division from Credit Suisse, where he was director of fixed income securities lending in their New York office...

Som Seif’s new ‘democratic’ firm chooses CIBC Mellon
07 February 2013 Toronto
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Purpose Investments has selected CIBC Mellon to deliver a full suite of asset servicing solutions, including custody, fund accounting, ETF administration and securities lending services...

Rockall’s collateral solution picked out by CoBank
06 February 2013 Colorado
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Rockall Technologies’ collateral management solution STOC has been selected by CoBank in Colorado...

CalPERS welcomes Ron Lind to board
06 February 2013 Sacramento
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has recruited Ron Lind to its board of administration...

ESMA polishes up market making exemption
05 February 2013 Paris
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final guidelines on the exemption for market making activities and primary market operations under the Short Selling Regulation...

European investors bite nails over MiFID transparency
05 February 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Over half of European investors polled say that the MiFID II proposal to force all quotes in fixed income instruments to be firm and disclosed to the market will have a negative impact on trading activity and reduce liquidity...

BlackRock contests plumbers and pipefitters lawsuit
05 February 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A lawsuit from two pension plans had landed BlackRock’s securities lending scheme in trouble, after it was alleged that the asset management firm had taken revenue out of investors’ hands...

Eurex witness single stock increase and repo decline
04 February 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Eurex Group has released its January 2013 figures, which show an increase in equity derivatives but a decrease in repo...

CIMB Securities Australia turns on Broadridge solution
04 February 2013 Sydney
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

CIMB Securities Australia has gone live with Broadridge’s broker client accounting solution, SUMMIT, for its Australian investment banking business...

Securities lending CCP activities up for OCC
04 February 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Total cleared contract volume in January reached 365,027,878 contracts for OCC. This represents an 8 percent increase from the January 2012 volume of 337,222,938 contracts...

The Salvation Army versus BNY Mellon continues
01 February 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit from The Salvation Army that claims BNY Mellon mismanaged its assets by investing the collateral used for securities lending in risky mortgage backed securities...