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Cantor Fitzgerald toughens up on prime services
20 February 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co said that its prime services division will add a new electronic "security locate" system with external connectivity to its existing prime brokerage platform...

South Korea offers Eurex direct market access
19 February 2013 South Korea
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Eurex Exchange, the international derivatives marketplace, has been granted permission to offer products in South Korea...

BCS’ prime brokerage division chooses QuantHouse
18 February 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Trading solutions provider QuantHouse has partnered up with the European arm of Russian financial institution BCS Financial Group to launch low latency market data for MICEX-RTS, Russia’s main equity market...

Rule Financial appoints Emily Cates to domain team
18 February 2013 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Rule Financial has hired Emily Cates as principal consultant in its domain group. She will be based in the firm's London office...

LCH.Clearnet releases 2012 highlights
15 February 2013 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

LCH.Clearnet's RepoClear product cleared more than €142.4 trillion nominal in 2012, according to its results...

Keith Gertsen leaves Citi prime finance
15 February 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Citi Private Bank has bagged Keith Gertsen as a managing director and team leader in Greenwich, Connecticut, effective 18 March...

Omgeo announces pricing changes
14 February 2013 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Omgeo has introduced pricing changes to reduce costs and overall risk in the financial markets by incentivising industry best practice...

Give feedback on ESMA short selling now
13 February 2013 Paris
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a call for evidence on the evaluation of the Regulation (EU) No236/2012 on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps (SSR)...

SimCorp promises enhanced collateral management
13 February 2013 Copenhagen
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Copenhagen-based SimCorp has released a new version of its front-to-back-office investment management platform that offers enhanced collateral management...

Prime brokerage head for BofA Merrill Lynch joins RWC
12 February 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Sean Capstick has joined investment manager RWC as the head of new markets, reporting to the firm’s new CEO Dan Mannix...

Euroclear’s Collateral Highway releases first results
12 February 2013 Brussels
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In its first recorded results, Euroclear's global "Collateral Highway" used €700 billion of securities as collateral each day by the year-end of 2012...

IOSCO helps regulators with client assets protection
11 February 2013 Madrid
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

IOSCO published a consultation report on Recommendations Regarding the Protection of Client Assets, which aims to help regulators improve the supervision of intermediaries holding client assets...