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BNP Paribas builds US prime brokerage business
19 October 2010 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

BNP Paribas has announced a pair of appointments within its Corporate and Investment Banking division...

RBC buys BlueBay
19 October 2010 London
Reporter: ben Wilkie

RBC has agreed to pay some USD1.5bn for the takeover of British fund manager BlueBay Asset Management.

UBS promotes Kalt to chief economist in Switzerland
19 October 2010 Bern
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Daniel Kalt has been appointed UBS' chief economist in Switzerland, as the bank increases its focus on its home economy.

Tazza new head of investor services
19 October 2010 New York
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

GlobeOp Financial Services appoints Philip Tazza as global head of Investor Services. Tazza will report to Vernon Barback, GlobeOp president and chief operating officer, and is based at the company's Harrison, New York office

Developments in the CCP space
18 October 2010 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Omgeo and EuroCCP's new pan-European equities matching and central counterparty clearing (CCP) service for hedge fund transactions has executed a live trade with prime broker and executing broker, Credit Suisse, and hedge fund manager, Citadel.

Data Explorers Update: Earnings for the Week Ahead...
18 October 2010 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

The spotlight will be on the US banks, including Goldman Sachs (GS), Bank of America (BAC) and Morgan Stanley (MS) this week as they report third-quarter quarter earnings.

Nedbank Selects StatPro
17 October 2010 Cape Town
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

StatPro Group plc, a leading provider of portfolio analysis and asset valuation services for the global asset management industry, today announces that the South African custodian division of Nedbank has committed to the new StatPro Seven analytics p

Lazard deploys Eagle platform for hedge fund prime brokerage clients
16 October 2010 Boston
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Eagle Investment Systems, announced that Lazard Capital Markets' Prime Services division has deployed its suite of data management, investment accounting, performance measurement, and information delivery solutions, all hosted via Eagle ACCESS(SM).

Swedbank Goes Live with SunGard's Front Arena
15 October 2010 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Swedbank has expanded its use of SunGard's Front Arena with the implementation of new algorithmic trading functionality within its capital markets division...

Collateral management 'next big challenge'
14 October 2010 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

A SunGard-sponsored study on collateral management reveals that collateral optimisation and efficient collateral management are the next big challenges in capital markets...

XSP goes mobile
13 October 2010 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

XSP has announced today that it is the first to unveil a mobile application for Corporate Actions processing. The new mobile app will be presented at the Sibos conference taking place October 25-29, 2010 in Amsterdam..

Ashley Wilkins appointed deputy CEO for SGCIB in Asia
13 October 2010 Hong Kong
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking has announced the appointment of Ashley Wilkins as deputy chief executive officer for the Asia Pacific region...