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Hottest stocks include BlackBerry and a snoring aid
24 September 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SunGard released their top ten hottest stocks from a securities lending perspective, which saw BlackBerry and Arena Pharmaceuticals again making the list...

CSD.Austria and NSD launch Russian securities link
18 September 2013 Moscow
Reporter: Jenna Jones

CSD.Austria, the Austrian Central Securities Depository operated by OeKB, and National Settlement Depository, Russia’s central securities depository, have launched an international direct link to the Russian securities market...

Omgeo CTM marks 17 percent growth
16 September 2013 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Omgeo Central Trade Manager has grown more than 17 percent during 2013, with the addition of 220 investment management and broker dealer clients worldwide.

Consultants outperforming fund of hedge funds
10 September 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Investment consultants oversee approximately $830 billion of the assets invested in hedge funds, a new study has revealed...

SL-x makes key hires
27 August 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SL-x Group, an electronic trading marketplace for stock lending transactions, has appointed a chief financial officer, general counsel, and strategy director...

Pershing picks SunGard for Canada
20 August 2013 New Jersey
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Pershing LLC, a BNY Mellon company that provides prime brokerage and broker-dealer solutions, has selected SunGard to provide market connectivity to its newest international broker-dealer in Canada...

SunGard helps Scottrade grow securities finance
30 July 2013 Missouri
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SunGard’s Loanet solution is supporting Scottrade, an online investing firm, with its expanding securities finance automation requirements...

SunGard puts confidence in Poland with new mandate
17 July 2013 Warsaw
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Dom Inwestycyjny Investors S.A. (DI Investors), an independent Polish brokerage house, has selected SunGard’s Valdi to provide a front-to-back trading and direct market access connectivity solution to the Warsaw Stock Exchange...

Euroclear and Clearstream agree on partnership for repo
16 July 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The future of the repo market has inspired three post-trade infrastructure providers to work together in order to increase efficiencies...

BNP Paribas shake things up down under
10 July 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Pierre Jond, the managing director of BNP Paribas Securities Services in Australia and New Zealand, will return to Paris in December 2013 after four years in his current role...

BNP Paribas wins Bahamas prime brokerage mandate
09 July 2013 Nassau
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Arabian Gulf Holdings has appointed BNP Paribas as the prime broker and custodian for its latest fund. The bank will provide prime brokerage services for all investments, margin financing, clearing, and securities lending and borrowing facilities...

Three custodian banks face ratings review
03 July 2013 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

BNY Mellon, State Street and Northern Trust are facing reviews of their long-term ratings because of narrow margins in core custody services and an over reliance on ancillary services such as securities lending, according to Moody’s...