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Benjamin Happ 'moves' to Boston
06 July 2012 Hong Kong
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

It has been reported that Credit Suisse’s head of capital services for its prime brokerage business in Asia Pacific, Benjamin Happ, is moving to Boston in the US...

Cries of fraud for Chinese tech company Quihoo
04 July 2012 Bejing
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Quihoo has joined the list of Chinese companies accused of fraud by shortsellers. The Bejing-based online security software developer has denied allegations made by Anonymous Analytics that user traffic on its website is lower than described...

South Korea to introduce short selling report rule
04 July 2012 Seoul
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Short sellers will be required to provide reports on their short positions in South Korea as of 30 August so that regulators will have more access to data on short selling activities...

Deutsche fills prime brokerage role
03 July 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Piers Murray will be Deutsche Bank's global head of fixed income prime brokerage in markets clearing and will report to Jon Hitchon, the head of markets clearing...

OneChicago nets June record
03 July 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Equity finance exchange OneChicago’s trading volume reached 868,512 in June—a 334 percent increase on May—making it the exchange’s highest monthly volume total since February 2007...

OCC’s securities lending volume rises
03 July 2012 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

OCC’s cleared contract volume declined 6 percent in the first half of 2012, but its securities lending volume rose 15 percent...

Ex-UBS exec to head prime services at RBS
02 July 2012 Hong Kong
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

David Gray will be the new head of prime services and client execution for Asia-Pacific at the Royal Bank of Scotland. His appointment to this role, which has been specifically created...

Banco de la Nación Argentina is latest Lombard client
29 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Banco de la Nación Argentina New York (BNA NY), a branch of Banco de la Nación Argentina (BNA), has chosen Lombard Risk to meet compliance requirements...

J.P. Morgan polishes up collateral management in Japan
29 June 2012 Tokyo
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

J.P.Morgan Worldwide Securities Services has updated its collateral management platform in Japan...

Street gets new role at Citi
28 June 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Citi has made Richard Street the EMEA head of client sales management for investors...

Ratings impact on Coast collateral agreement
28 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Fitch ratings has declared that a proposed change to the Coast Collateral Management Agreement (CMA), in which the CDO asset management responsibilities for the transaction...

BlackRock reinforces sec lending regulation
28 June 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

At the end of 2011, it was reported that BlackRock’s iShares ETFs lent out on average 92 percent of the securities that they held...