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BlackRock securities lending revenue up in Q4 2011

23 January 2012 New York
Reporter: Anna Reitman

BlackRock operating income in the fourth quarter of 2011 decreased 14 per cent to $808 million year-on-year on the back of a drop in investment fees, offset by a lift in securities lending revenues...

GlobeOp sees drop in hedge fund redemptions

23 January 2012 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Hedge fund redemption requests for January measured 1.9 per cent, a drop on last month's 4.6 per cent, according to GlobeOp's forward redemption index...

Data Explorers launches robot journalist

23 January 2012 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Data Explorers has partnered with Narrative Science to create the world's first securities lending newswire using an artificial intelligence system...

HazelTree expands East coast team

19 January 2012 New York
Reporter: Anna Reitman

HazelTree has appointed Paul Calderone as managing director of operations...

BNY Mellon gets Van Eck sec lending ETF mandate

18 January 2012 New York
Reporter: Anna Reitman

BNY Mellon has been selected to provide securities lending, exchange-traded fund (ETF) services, custody and fund accounting for the six new Market Vector Industry ETFs which recently launched...

Hedge funds short New Year's resolutions

18 January 2012 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Short sellers are staying put in the shares with high self improvement exposure, despite a New Year’s rally in their share price, writes Data Explorers....

Canadian court rules on CSA

18 January 2012 Ottawa
Reporter: Anna Reitman

The Supreme Court of Canada forced the federal government back to the drawing board on the Canadian Securities Act (CSA) when it unanimously found the legislation to be unconstitutional...

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Lombardo resurfaces at Pirum

17 January 2012 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Pirum Systems have strengthened their London team with the appointment of Jonathan Lombardo as head of sales...

European turmoil causes lenders to run for collateral cover

16 January 2012 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Long only investors who lend reduced their assets and exposure to sovereign bonds of risky economies while increasing their holdings in bonds of insulated economies, reports Data Explorers...

Latest research adds to evidence that short selling bans don't work

16 January 2012 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Bans on short-selling in the eurozone are unlikely to prevent share prices from continuing to fall and could cause "more harm than good", according to a Cass Business School study...