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Comyno expands into London
02 January 2013 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Frankfurt-based consultancy and software development house Comyno has hired Andrew Chaplin as a managing partner in London...

EquiLend goes live with DataLend
02 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Securities finance trading and post-trade services provider EquiLend has entered the data market with the launch of DataLend...

RBS head of Americas securities lending moves to Canadian bank
28 December 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Steven Scholl is leaving Royal Bank of Scotland to join National Bank of Canada Financial. He will lead the bank’s US and Latin America securities lending business from 7 January...

Twenty percent growth for SEB prime brokerage platform
21 December 2012 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

New SEB figures show a 20 percent increase in mandates on its prime brokerage platform over the last year...

Old Mutual picks prime brokerage Pepper
21 December 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Old Mutual Global Investors has hired Donald Pepper as managing director of alternative investments...

Irish central bank fines Aviva €2.45 million over securities lending
20 December 2012 Dublin
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Central Bank of Ireland has fined insurance firm Aviva because it failed to properly check and control its securities lending programme...

Quadriserv to serve up repo platform
19 December 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Quadriserv is working on a central counterparty (CCP)-based platform for equity repo, the firm has revealed. OCC will serve as the CPP clearer for AQS Repo, which has gained support from repo industry participants...

BNP Paribas launches Solvency II solution
19 December 2012 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

BNP Paribas Securities Services has launched its new Solvency II Capital Requirement Solution (SCR)...

ESMA starts clock on UCITS guidelines compliance
19 December 2012 Paris
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

National authorities of EU member states have two months to let the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) know whether they will comply with its consolidated guidelines on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and other UCITS issues...

General treasurer hires new chief investment officer
18 December 2012 Rhode Island
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Rhode Island’s general treasurer, Gina Raimondo has appointed Anne-Marie Fink as the new chief investment officer/deputy treasurer of finance, responsible for managing the state’s $7.3 billion dollar pension fund...

Hedge fund manager to pay $44 million for short selling
18 December 2012 Washington D.C.
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Sung Kook Hwang, a manager of two New York-based hedge funds, and his two firms have agreed to pay $44 million to settle US SEC charges over short selling...

Citi bags big Swedish hedge fund manager mandate
18 December 2012 Stockholm
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Citi will provide prime brokerage, custody and depository services to the recently launched Carve fund from Sweden's largest hedge fund manager, Brummer & Partners...