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Cantor Fitzgerald continues prime services expansion

10 February 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. have announced that the management team of PCS Dunbar Securities is joining its Prime Services division. In a move to further increase the firm’s growing Prime Services business and breadth of products....

EXCLUSIVE: EquiLend announces record trading numbers

10 February 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

EquiLend announced this month that the company executed the highest number of trades across their platform since its 2001 inception...

Margin trading arrives at KSE

08 February 2011 Karachi
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has approved a leverage product, which will launch at the end of the month...

Key hires to boost SunGard

08 February 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

SunGard Astec Analytics has made two appointments to its North American team as it works on building its relationships with beneficial owners in the securities lending space.

First tri-party collateral manager to accept gold

08 February 2011 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

J.P. Morgan to accept physical gold as collateral to satisfy securities lending and repo obligations with counterparties. This comes as more clients look to use gold as a hedge against inflation and to post as collateral.

ConvergEx Group Rolls Out Cogent Hedge Trak Software

07 February 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

ConvergEx Group, has announced that its Cogent Consulting division has released the new Hedge Trak broker review software for hedge funds preparing to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on or before July 21, 2011.

New transition managers at State Street

03 February 2011 Boston
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

State Street Global Markets has announced several transition management appointments to its global Portfolio Solutions Group...

OneChicago reports January volume

03 February 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

OneChicago has reported that 166,145 security futures contracts traded at the exchange in January 2011...

Albert Fried goes for growth with key hires

02 February 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Gerard Losurdo has been appointed managing director of securities lending at Albert Fried and Kim Wilson as director of its securities lending department...

OCC volume up 22 per cent

02 February 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Total OCC cleared contract volume in January reached 381,558,077, a 22 per cent increase from the January 2010 total of 313,538,874...

Study: EU ineffective

01 February 2011 London
Reporter: steven Lafferty

Independent Study: An EU proposal for the public disclosure of the net short positions of individual managers risks distorting financial markets and is not effective

Wildeman to join Securities Lending Times

01 February 2011 Beckenham
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Katie Wildeman is joining Black Knight Media, publisher of Securities Lending Times and Asset Servicing Times. Wildeman, who takes on the role of associate publisher for Securities Lending Times, previously held the same role at ICFA

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