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Albert Fried & Company opens new prime lending division
18 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Albert Fried & Company is expanding securities lending into a newly created prime lending services division...

BNY Mellon 4Q results reveal dip in securities lending revenue
17 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

While improvement in market values meant good news for BNY Mellon’s investment management, asset servicing, clearing and treasury services businesses, investment services fared slightly worse in the bank’s Q4 2012 results...

CSDs hold hands for collateral crunch
17 January 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Central securities depositories (CSDs) including ASX (Australia), Cetip (Brazil), Clearstream (Frankfurt/Luxembourg), Iberclear (Spain) and Strate (South Africa) have all teamed up and are encouraging other regions to join them in extending a global

Saxo Bank to provide FX prime brokerage
16 January 2013 Copenhagen
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Saxo Bank, the multi-asset online trading and investment specialist, has launched the FX prime brokerage solution Saxo Prime...

CalPERS re-elects Feckner and Diehr for board
15 January 2013 Monterey
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Rob Feckner and George Diehr will remain on the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) board of administration after it unanimously re-elected them as president and vice president respectively...

DataLend upgrades for user experience
15 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

New enhancements and features have been added to EquiLend’s data service for the securities finance industry, DataLend, including an ability to access a pre-defined list of securities to return metrics for a selected business date...

Alison Phillips joins ING from Goldman Sachs
15 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Alison Phillips has been appointed to the financial markets business of ING as director of global securities finance sales for Europe...

Clearstream sees dip in securities financing
14 January 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream’s Global Securities Financing (GSF) services recorded a monthly average outstanding of €555.7 billion in December 2012...

Risky business for LCH.Clearnet-cleared bonds and repos
14 January 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

LCH.Clearnet has implemented formal loss allocation arrangements as a means of mitigating systemic risk for bonds and repos that are cleared through its RepoClear service...

BlackRock grabs hold of Credit Suisse’s ETF business
14 January 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

BlackRock’s position in Swiss investment market is set to be extended after it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the ETF business of Credit Suisse...

S3 Partners hires Goldman Sachs veteran
11 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

S3 Partners has appointed Jose Fernandez as managing director and global head of business development and client service...

Paladyne invests in buy side with four new hires
11 January 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Paladyne Systems, a Broadridge Financial Solutions company, has appointed Jim Feingold to the role of global head of sales...