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FinTuition sees low sec lending levels in European ETFs
18 September 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Roy Zimmerhansl of FinTuition and Andrew Howieson of Howieson Consulting examined relative underdevelopment of securities lending and collateral management relevant to European ETF shares in their new white paper...

Scotiabank picks PrimeOne
18 september 2012 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Scotiabank is expanding its prime brokerage operations with PrimeOne Solutions's platform in a bid to attract more hedge fund business...

Citi enhances its collateral service
17 September 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Citi has enhanced OpenCollateral to provide asset managers with automated collateral position reconciliation via SWIFT. This requires fewer collateral accounts and reduces the number of collateral instructions...

Pirum provides real-time triparty RQV automation
17 September 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Pirum has deployed the final component of its new triparty required value (RQV) service, which it has developed in partnership with J.P. Morgan...

J.P. Morgan makes Carlos Hernandez head of investor services
14 September 2012 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

J.P. Morgan Chase has appointed Carlos Hernandez as head of investor services. The firm has also announced new leadership for the corporate and investment bank division that was formed in July 2012...

Kentucky Retirement seeks global custodian
14 September 2012 Kentucky
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) is looking for a new global custodian to provide custody services for its $13.7 billion pension fund...

BNY Mellon announces AccessEdge upgrade
14 September 2012 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

BNY Mellon has launched an upgrade to its collateral management portal, AccessEdge...

Pershing expands in Canada
12 September 2012 Toronto
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BNY Mellon subsidiary and prime broker Pershing LLC has launched a Canadian affiliate, Pershing Securities Canada Limited, and opened a new offiice in Toronto as it bids to increase its presence in the Canadian market...

Hedge fund assets for prime custody services surge
13 September 2012 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Hedge fund assets that are available for prime custody services stood at $684 billion in August 2012, increasing by 40 percent since 2010, according to a new report...

Prospera goes live with Protegent social media surveillance
12 September 2012 Texas
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Texas based broker dealer, Prospera Financial Services has started using SunGard’s protegent social media surveillance program to monitor its advisor’s online activity on social media sites including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter...

HazelTree bags new managing director for sales
12 September 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Treasury, portfolio and risk management services provider HazelTree has appointed Tyler Gowen to the position of managing director...

Legal understanding leads to Omgeo update
12 September 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Omgeo has updated its ALERT database, which deals with settlement and account instructions, with new legal entity data capture functionality...