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Clearstream offers settlement access to Brazil
26 January 2011 Sao Paulo
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Clearstream, the post-trade service and global liquidity provider within Deutsche Börse Group, is the first international central securities depository (ICSD) to include Brazil in its cross-border settlement network...

Chi-East rolls on
26 January 2011 Singapore
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Chi-East, the independent, pan-Asian trading venue, has completed the roll out of its non-displayed trading platform for securities listed in Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore...

Deutsche Börse taps Cinnober
26 January 2011 Frankfurt
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Deutsche Börse and Cinnober have announced a licensing agreement that foresees the implementation of Cinnober’s state-of-the-art market surveillance technology at both the Deutsche Börse cash market Xetra and the derivatives market Eurex Exchange

Cantor Fitzgerald appoint Kessler
25 January 2011 New York
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. have announced that Jarred Kessler has joined the firm as Global Head of Equities. Kessler, who joins Cantor from Credit Suisse, where he was managing the credit focused equities business.....

HKEx adds to short selling list
24 January 2011 Hong Kong
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong has added hongqing Rural Commercial Bank Co Ltd to the list of stocks eligible for short selling...

DB selected by MOSERS for securities lending
24 January 2011 Missouri
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Missouri State Employees' Retirement System (MOSERS) has selected Deutsche Bank to provide securities lending services...

Japanese FSA extend short selling restrictions
24 January 2011 Tokyo
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The Japanese Financial Services Authority has extended the temporary restrictions on short selling to April 30, 2011...

Data Explorers: A look at forthcoming US earnings
23 January 2011 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Data Explorers highlight companies announcing results this week where our long and short flow highlights interesting trends, including Amazon, Netflix , Yahoo!, Verizon Communications, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, Starbucks Corp, Lockheed Martin Corp and....

BNP Paribas automates with BondLend
23 January 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

BondLend, has announced that BNP Paribas is the first broker dealer to use Straight-Through Processing for their Fixed Income Mark-to-Market service. Straight-Through Processing facilitates reconciliation actions on BondLend’s comparison service...

ConvergEx Announces Record Growth for NorthPoint in 2010
21 January 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

ConvergEx Group has announced that NorthPoint Trading Partners grew at a record pace in 2010, one year since ConvergEx acquired the prime services business...

Ministers announce expansion of Fidessa plc's Belfast centre
21 January 2011 Belfast
Reporter: Justin Lawson

First Minister Rt. Hon. Peter D. Robinson MLA and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness MP, MLA announced that Fidessa plc is to create 90 high-quality financial services technology jobs in Belfast today.

BlackRock appoints Seidenberg to Board
20 January 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

BlackRock, Inc. have announced that Ivan G. Seidenberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Verizon, has joined the Company’s Board of Directors.