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Amherst merges with Pierpoint
03 July 2014 Texas
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Amherst Securities Group and Pierpont Securities have entered into a definitive agreement to merge, in a transaction that will create a fixed-income broker-dealer...

Banks could benefit from up to €40 billion
03 July 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephen Durham

A Clearstream-sponsored study has revealed the need for a “collateral value chain” in order to enable up to €40 billion in equity capital savings for European banks...

SunGard's hottest stocks
01 July 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SunGard’s Astec Analytics have selected a wide variety of the globe’s hottest stocks, with entrants’ interests ranging from cement to internet gaming...

Lime Brokerage adds CEO joins board of directors
23 June 2014 New York
Reporter: Tammy Facey

Lime Brokerage has appointed Rich Jablonski as CEO and to its board of directors...

Trio joins Cantor Fitzgerald
19 June 2014 New York
Reporter: Tammy Facey

Cantor Fitzgerald has welcomed three new faces to its prime services group...

Eurex Clearing Prisma 2.0 offers cross margining
16 June 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Users of the new risk system Eurex Clearing Prisma can now benefit from portfolio margining capabilities within an asset class as well as cross margining between listed fixed income products and the OTC interest rate swap business...

Minimum margin requirement 'a possibility'
10 June 2014 Washington DC
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

A “broadly applicable” margin requirement to protect against capital exiting short-term funding markets in the event of a financial crisis would make sense, a US Federal Reserve governor has reportedly said...

ConvergEx to use Liquid platform
23 May 2014 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Liquid Holdings Group has signed a joint marketing agreement with ConvergEx Prime Services LLC, the prime services division of ConvergEx Group LLC...

Regulatory uncertainty threatens systems
22 May 2014 Paris
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The unclear regulatory landscape is the biggest challenge cited by banks in implementing their counterparty risk and credit valuation adjustment (CVA) platforms, according to a whitepaper by InteDelta and Murex...

Zürcher Kantonalbank makes promotion
15 May 2014 Zurich
Reporter: Tammy Facey

Zürcher Kantonalbank has promoted Ueli von Burg to head its cash and collateral trading and management desk, taking over from Felix Oegerli...

SunGard’s hot stocks: 5 May
08 May 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Only Twitter and Anhui Conch managed to hold their place at the top of SunGard’s Astec Analytics latest hot stocks list...

Software training in the Bronx
01 May 2014 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

A new software testing centre will bring 150 high-technology jobs to the Bronx in New York—equating to $5 million in wages in its first year alone...