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eSecLending bags Peter Economou

26 July 2012 Boston
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

He will take up the newly created position of CRO on 6 August and will be responsible for the oversight and strategic development of enterprise risk management on a global basis. He will report to co-CEOs Karen O’Connor and Chris Jaynes...

Spain and Italy ban short selling

26 July 2012 Madrid and Rome
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Spanish and Italian regulators have introduced short selling bans due to extreme volatility in financial markets...

Andrew Amstutz leaves Citi

25 July 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The former Morgan Stanley employee has left Citi, where he was the global head of funding for prime finance and equity in New York...

Paladyne unveil new data suite

25 July 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Paladyne Systems, a Broadridge Financial Solutions company have a new release of Paladyne’s Reference Data Suite, which services assets run by hedge funds, investment managers, fund administrators, and prime brokers...

Oil and gas company executes sec lending agreement

25 July 2012 Calgary
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Oil and gas company CYGAM Energy, which is based in Canada, has executed a securities lending agreement with one of its controlling shareholders...

Newedge picks Fidessa out from the crowd

24 July 2012 London and Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Newedge has selected the Fidessa trading platform and order management system for its global derivatives and equity trading business...

Lombard Risk’s Reporter welcomes eight

24 July 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Eight financial institutions have recently selected Reporter—Lombard Risk Management’s regulatory solution—in response to new European reporting regulations...

BlackRock's Q2 2012 revenue dips

19 July 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Its investment advisory, administration fees and securities lending revenue of $2 billion decreased from the Q2 2011 figure of $2.1 billion...

It’s a $14.5 million payout for brothers Wolfson

19 July 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Brothers Jeffrey and Robert Wolfson, accused of naked short selling by the SEC, agreed to pay $14.5 million to settle the case against them...

BoE: synthetic ETFs are “opaque”

19 July 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

On top of synthetic ETFs, collateral swaps, structured notes and bilateral term repos are also deemed to be opaque...

Prime brokers deemed unimportant by investors

18 July 2012 New Jersey
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

A survey by Corgentum unearthed the surprising discovery that just 17 percent of investors felt that prime brokers were the most important hedge fund service provider, as compared to administrators and auditors...

Former Morgan Stanley employee heads to Cantor Fitzgerald

18 July 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., a financial services firm, has welcomed former Morgan Stanley employee Saurav Chatterjee as managing director in the equity capital markets division...

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