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Collateral Highway adds agency cash management platform
12 March 2013 Brussels
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Newedge UK and EuroMTS will promote Euroclear’s Collateral Highway as a means of managing collateral for triparty repo transactions that are conducted on the firms’ agency cash management (ACM) platform in Europe...

Concept Capital lands prime brokerage managing director
12 March 2013 Atlanta
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Concept Capital Markets has recruited Charlie Fisher as a managing director in its prime brokerage services group. He joins the firm from Grace Financial Group and will be based in its newly established office in Atlanta...

IMS Group and HedgeOp Compliance branch out into Asia
12 March 2013 Hong Kong
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

IMS Group and HedgeOp Compliance will open its first office in Hong Kong to support local and international firms in their efforts to manage global regulation...

BNP Paribas signs up to the Collateral Highway
11 March 2013 Brussels
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BNP Paribas is the latest firm to go live on Euroclear Bank’s Collateral Highway. The firms have been working since last year to develop their triparty collateral management arrangements...

Survey reveals European repo market decline
11 March 2013 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The size of the European repo market declined 0.9 percent between June and December 2012, according to the European Repo Council of the International Capital Market Association’s (ICMA’s) bi-annual survey...

GSF down but AUA up for Clearstream
08 March 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Clearstream has released its January 2013 figures, which show a decrease in global securities finance (GSF), but an increase in assets under custody...

Maxim Group names Seth Michaels as new prime brokerage head
08 March 2013 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Investment banking, securities and wealth management firm, Maxim Group, has appointed Seth Michaels as managing director of its prime brokerage services division...

BNY Mellon receives key patents for electronic commodity trading
08 March 2013 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

BNY Mellon has been given three patents for key processes that enable electronic trading of commodities through exchange-traded funds (ETFs)...

PASLA/RMA securities lending conference: (More) regulatory woes
08 March 2013 Hong Kong
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Regulations came under the microscope again at the PASLA/RMA securities lending conference, but this time it was the turn of Basel III, liquidity coverage ratios and the financial transaction tax...

RBC appoints head of investor services for Hong Kong and North Asia
07 March 2013 Hong Kong
Reporter: Jenna Jones

RBC Investor and Treasury Services has hired Andrew Gordon as head of investor services for Hong Kong and North Asia...

PASLA/RMA securities lending conference: regulatory woes
07 March 2013 Hong Kong
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Regulation was the major issue on the second day of the PASLA/RMA securities lending conference, with Dodd-Frank and shadow banking in China coming under the microscope...

Itaú BBA picks Broadridge to support sec lending and repo
07 March 2013 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Itaú BBA has selected Broadridge’s technology and business process outsourcing solution (BPO) to support its USD-based securities lending and repo business, Itaú BBA USA Securities...