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ICF uses Atrium to access NYSE Liffe
29 May 2010 London
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Atrium Network recently announced that ICF Systems AG, located in Frankfurt and Amsterdam, will extend its use of Atrium Network to access the NYSE Liffe UTP Derivatives platform when the service goes‐live in July 2010.

Poland bucks the market
28 May 2010 Warsaw
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The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) and the National Depository for Securities (NDS) have published the necessary amendments to their Rules in order to allow short selling in the Polish market, effective from July 1, 2010.

J.P Morgan Hiring down under
28 May 2010 Sydney
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J.P. Morgan recently announced further expansion plans for its Treasury & Securities Services businesses which will see the recruitment of 100 additional staff across Australia and New Zealand and establishment of a new Australian headquarters.

Registration for Stockloan professionals
27 May 2010 Washington
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today issued a Regulatory Notice soliciting comments on a rule proposal designed to enhance oversight of broker-dealers' "back-office" operations by expanding registration requirements.

Increased appetite for risk
27 May 2010 New York
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Following a very successful US conference, 'The Securities Financing Forum' which took place yesterday, May 26th at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York, Data Explorers, today released some interesting survey findings.

It's all Mapped out
27 May 2010 New York
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SunGard has launched MarketMap, a multi-asset, market data, analysis and information services solution in the U.S. MarketMap is a global solution providing data from 160 global exchanges, news feeds and over-the-counter (OTC) sources.

Data Explorers offers unprecedented copyright freedom
26 May 2010 New York
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Data Explorers, today announced that its industry standard reference book is available through a Creative Commons license. This allows anyone to copy, distribute and remix the work for non-commercial uses. To view go to LongShortReport.com

4sight Wins 4
26 May 2010 Edinburgh
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4sight has signed four new customers for its Securities Finance software. The new client wins mean 4sight has now increased its client base to thirty financial institutions and new sales revenue has grown 150% year on year as a result.

Still Hiring
26 May 2010 Amsterdam
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Prime Fund Solutions (PFS), the brokerage arm of Fortis Bank Nederland soon to be Credit Suisse has made a number of new hires across its global network of offices. New members of the team include; Jay Moghe, Martin Lui, Jason Ganz and Stephen Kane.

Data Explorers Global Top 10 Shorts and Squeezes
25 May 2010 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

A quick snapshot of some of the companies attracting interest from the industry at present. For more information, graphs or statistics contact Data Explorers.

Austrians extend naked short ban
25 May 2010 Vienna
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The Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) extends the current temporary ban on naked short selling of shares of Erste Group Bank AG, Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG, UNIQA Versicherungen AG and WIENER STAEDTISCHE Versicherung AG

Change to SOMA Securities Lending Program
25 May 2010 New York
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Open Market Trading Desk is making changes to the System Open Market Account (SOMA) securities lending program.