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J.P Morgan Hiring down under

28 May 2010 Sydney
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J.P. Morgan recently announced further expansion plans for its Treasury & Securities Services businesses which will see the recruitment of 100 additional staff across Australia and New Zealand and establishment of a new Australian headquarters.

Registration for Stockloan professionals

27 May 2010 Washington
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today issued a Regulatory Notice soliciting comments on a rule proposal designed to enhance oversight of broker-dealers' "back-office" operations by expanding registration requirements.

Increased appetite for risk

27 May 2010 New York
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Following a very successful US conference, 'The Securities Financing Forum' which took place yesterday, May 26th at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York, Data Explorers, today released some interesting survey findings.

It's all Mapped out

27 May 2010 New York
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SunGard has launched MarketMap, a multi-asset, market data, analysis and information services solution in the U.S. MarketMap is a global solution providing data from 160 global exchanges, news feeds and over-the-counter (OTC) sources.

Data Explorers offers unprecedented copyright freedom

26 May 2010 New York
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Data Explorers, today announced that its industry standard reference book is available through a Creative Commons license. This allows anyone to copy, distribute and remix the work for non-commercial uses. To view go to LongShortReport.com

4sight Wins 4

26 May 2010 Edinburgh
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4sight has signed four new customers for its Securities Finance software. The new client wins mean 4sight has now increased its client base to thirty financial institutions and new sales revenue has grown 150% year on year as a result.

Still Hiring

26 May 2010 Amsterdam
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Prime Fund Solutions (PFS), the brokerage arm of Fortis Bank Nederland soon to be Credit Suisse has made a number of new hires across its global network of offices. New members of the team include; Jay Moghe, Martin Lui, Jason Ganz and Stephen Kane.

Data Explorers Global Top 10 Shorts and Squeezes

25 May 2010 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

A quick snapshot of some of the companies attracting interest from the industry at present. For more information, graphs or statistics contact Data Explorers.

Austrians extend naked short ban

25 May 2010 Vienna
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The Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) extends the current temporary ban on naked short selling of shares of Erste Group Bank AG, Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG, UNIQA Versicherungen AG and WIENER STAEDTISCHE Versicherung AG

Change to SOMA Securities Lending Program

25 May 2010 New York
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Open Market Trading Desk is making changes to the System Open Market Account (SOMA) securities lending program.

SunGard integrates AQS Trade Data

24 May 2010 London
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SunGard has integrated executed, market-driven trade data derived from Quadriserv's AQS securities lending market into SunGard's Astec Analytics platform, its solution for securities lending performance measurement and program management.

Data Explorers New Concentration Ratio

24 May 2010 London
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Data Explorers today launched its Concentration Ratio analytics. This brings a new level of transparency into securities financing and helps mitigate the risk of short squeezes.

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