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Daiwa Capital Markets growth through acquisition
05 July 2010 London
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Daiwa Capital Markets (Daiwa), is acquiring the global convertible bonds and Asian equity derivatives business lines of Belgium's KBC Group NV for a total consideration of approximately USD 1bn

Shin Kong Financial goes live with Algorithmics
05 July 2010 Taipei
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Algorithmics, announced today that Shin Kong Financial Holding Co Ltd, has gone live with Algorithmics' market risk solution for enterprise risk management across the whole group.

Post-MiFID Market Transparency Initiative
05 July 2010 New York
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NYSE Technologies and Markit, has announced the launch of a joint initiative designed to consolidate data and enhance transparency in the European over the counter (OTC) equity markets.

No Naked Norwegians
02 July 2010 Oslo
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The Norwegian Parliament has passed changes to the Norwegian Securities Trading Act on naked short selling.

DTCC acquires AVOX
02 July 2010 London
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced today that it has acquired the outstanding shares of Avox Limited, a reference data business located in the U.K.

OCC reports 11 per cent increase in H1
02 July 2010 Chicago
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Over 2 billion contracts exchanged hands in a six-month period for the first time

Axa team step down over coding error
02 July 2010 California
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Three members of AXA have stepped down following an investigation into the response to a coding error...

BNY Mellon promotes Daniel Smith in Asia-Pacific
02 July 2010 Hong Kong
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Daniel Smith is the new chief administrative officer for BNY Mellon in the Asia Pacific region...

BNY Mellon completes PNC acquisition
02 July 2010 New York
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BNY Mellon has completed the acquisition of PNC's Global Investment Servicing business...

LAFPP submits custody RFI
01 July 2010 Los Angeles
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The City of Los Angeles Fire & Police Pension Plan has submitted a RFI for master trust custodial banking services...

Collateral process, best practise
01 June 2010 New York
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The Best Practices are the result of the collaborative efforts of a working group of buy-side and sell-side market participants, under the auspices of the ISDA Collateral Steering Committee.

In our defense - Premier GSL release statement
30 June 2010 Boston
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Earlier today Premier Global Securities Lending released a statement announcing that Peter Economou, Paul Lynch, Suzanne Lee, Michael McAuley, William Locke, Oberon Knapp, Larry Albaugh and Michael Landolfini are joining the company as part of the ma