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Repo up and single stock down for Deutsche Börse
04 December 2012 Frankfurt
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Deutsche Börse Group has released its November 2012 figures that saw the equity derivatives (equity options and single stock futures) segment of Eurex Exchange reach 25.1 million contracts, down 1.8 million contracts year-on-year...

SunGard launches Apex Prime
03 December 2012 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

SunGard has released Apex Prime, a global solution to help new and established prime service providers manage their day-to-day client processing and improve client services by maximising transparency, control and efficiency...

Conifer Group makes management changes
03 December 2012 San Francisco
Reporter: Jenna Jones

The Conifer Group has promoted Howard Eisen to head of business development alongside naming Manish Garg as the firm’s chief information officer...

Nomura bags Goldman Sachs hedge fund specialist
30 November 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Jon Hartropp has moved to Nomura after spending 10 years at Goldman Sachs. He joined Nomura on 19 November as vice president, focusing on hedge fund client relationships and reporting to Phil Morgan, head of prime sales...

Cleartstream branches out in Dublin
30 November 2012 Dublin
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Cleartstream has opened a hedge fund processing centre in Dublin to extend its post-trade offering to hedge funds...

Mudie to push R.J. O'Brien in Europe
30 November 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

David Mudie will lead the new London-based operation of US independent futures brokerage and clearing firm R.J. O'Brien & Associates, which was established earlier this year, as CEO...

BNY Mellon makes Solway regional head of equity finance
29 November 2012 Hong Kong
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Paul Solway has been appointed as BNY Mellon’s managing director and regional head of equity finance for Asia-Pacific, confirming a story that SLT reported in early October...

Omgeo experiences total ProtoColl
29 November 2012 Boston
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Omgeo’s automated collateral management solution ProtoColl has been enhanced to help users meet new US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reporting requirements...

CIBC Mellon to provide Horizons ETFs with sec lending
29 November 2012 Toronto
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Horizons Exchange Traded Funds and its associate AlphaPro Management—jointly known as Horizons ETFs—has appointed CIBC Mellon to provide custody and securities lending services for its actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs)...

PEAK6 picks Paladyne FastStart
28 November 2012 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Investment advisory firm PEAK6 Advisors has selected Paladyne FastStart to support the launch of its multi-asset class hedge fund...

Collateral optimisation more important to sell side, says SunGard
28 November 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Collateral optimisation appears relatively more important to the sell side, perhaps reflecting the broader range of collateral-absorbing activities that are undertaken compared to the initial margining process that is so important to the buy side...

Finextra discusses CCPs as “too big to fail”
28 November 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Even though the market has not witnessed a massive meltdown of CCPs and its paralysing effect, regulators are taking precautions, says Finextra...