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TTI CEO welcomes short selling
11 February 2011 Tampa
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

TTI Corp. announced that stock volume is at record levels due to fundamental developments and ascertaining Bulletin Board listing and also announces record setting short position volume...

Merlin Securities continues expansion
10 February 2011 New York
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

Merlin Securities, has announced that Robert Garrett has joined the firm as senior partner and chief technology officer. Garrett previously served as global head of execution services technology at Deutsche Bank.

Cantor Fitzgerald continues prime services expansion
10 February 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. have announced that the management team of PCS Dunbar Securities is joining its Prime Services division. In a move to further increase the firm’s growing Prime Services business and breadth of products....

EXCLUSIVE: EquiLend announces record trading numbers
10 February 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

EquiLend announced this month that the company executed the highest number of trades across their platform since its 2001 inception...

Margin trading arrives at KSE
08 February 2011 Karachi
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has approved a leverage product, which will launch at the end of the month...

Key hires to boost SunGard
08 February 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

SunGard Astec Analytics has made two appointments to its North American team as it works on building its relationships with beneficial owners in the securities lending space.

First tri-party collateral manager to accept gold
08 February 2011 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

J.P. Morgan to accept physical gold as collateral to satisfy securities lending and repo obligations with counterparties. This comes as more clients look to use gold as a hedge against inflation and to post as collateral.

ConvergEx Group Rolls Out Cogent Hedge Trak Software
07 February 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

ConvergEx Group, has announced that its Cogent Consulting division has released the new Hedge Trak broker review software for hedge funds preparing to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on or before July 21, 2011.

New transition managers at State Street
03 February 2011 Boston
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

State Street Global Markets has announced several transition management appointments to its global Portfolio Solutions Group...

OneChicago reports January volume
03 February 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

OneChicago has reported that 166,145 security futures contracts traded at the exchange in January 2011...

Albert Fried goes for growth with key hires
02 February 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Gerard Losurdo has been appointed managing director of securities lending at Albert Fried and Kim Wilson as director of its securities lending department...

OCC volume up 22 per cent
02 February 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Total OCC cleared contract volume in January reached 381,558,077, a 22 per cent increase from the January 2010 total of 313,538,874...