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September
AllianzGI Investments Europe has appointed a fixed income team in Switzerland
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Barclays Private Equity is looking to raise $1.91 billion for a new fund as it prepares to spin off from its parent
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US private equity firms are in talks with Goldman Sachs proprietary traders to broaden their investment remit
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Citigroup has launched Ivaldi Capital, a platform to cater for the increasing demand for alpha-generating investments
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Credit Suisse has appointed Koji Fukaya as chief currency strategist in Japan
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A French firm has appointed managers for its $1.3 billion commodities hedge fund
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Creditors representing about 99% of the Dubai World debt have agreed to the restructuring proposal made in May
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Citi boosts its Prime Finance team with the appointment of a former GLG hedge fund of funds chief
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Deutsche Agency Lending has hired a senior fixed income trader
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Goldman Sachs Group names new chairman of asset
management
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The chairman of one of the UK’s biggest pension funds has taken on a part time role at Goldman Sachs
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HSBC Securities Services has come top in R&M’s annual survey for fund accounting and administration
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J. P. Morgan has launched a new equities mutual fund
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KB Asset Management receives China licence
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A survey conducted by Kinetic Partners shows a lack of confidence in future regulation
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Russell Investments has hired a transition management veteran to develop EMEA business
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Credit Suisse Group has hired the former global head of corporate advisory group from arch-rival UBS
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Acadian Asset Management has appointed an ex-SEC official to its investment team
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Amundi ETF has listed 15 exchange-traded funds on the Borsa Italiana
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Barclays Wealth has appointed Thelma Kwan as head of Wealth Advisory, Asia Pacific
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BNP Paribas Corporate & Investment Banking is restructuring its global equities and commodity derivatives business
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Steve Pitkin has joined Citi Global Transaction Services as head of investor services for its hedge fund services unit
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Citigroup has announced the establishment of a new origination function as part of its Transition Management business in EMEA
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Dutch fiduciary manager Mn Services has appointed a client portfolio manager for its UK fiduciary management clients
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Assicurazioni Generali, Veneto Banca and Palladio Finanziaria have launched a $762 million fund
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HIG Bayside Capital has raised $1.1 billion for a special situation loan fund focused on distressed transactions
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LCH.Clearnet's Spanish government bonds and repos service has cleared more than €130 billion in notional volumes
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Morgan Stanley Investment Management has appointed Sophia Drossos as a senior investor on the global macro and asset allocation team
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The investment banking unit of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena will clear interest-rate swaps on LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear platform
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A Government Pension Scheme in London has awarded Northern Trust to provide global custody mandate
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SIX x-clear will significantly reduce its prices and introduce a simpler tariff
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UBS has appointed a head of regional capital introduction in its prime brokerage division
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Vanguard today introduced eight new index mutual funds and nine new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on S&P domestic stock benchmarks.
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AllianceBernstein has appointed the head of its Defined Contribution sales team covering the UK
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A Dutch pension plan has awarded a $6.3 billion fiduciary portfolio mandate to BlackRock
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BNP Paribas Asset Management is selling its 33% stake in a Chinese asset management venture
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California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is seeking to reduce targeted alpha and risk in its $46.6 billion fixed-income portfolio
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Chi-X Global has appointed Tal Cohen as its chief executive
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Deutsche Bank has won a Brazilian depositary mandate
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The European Central Securities Depository Association has appointed its first secretary-general and opened an office in Brussels
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Fund managers are acting more cautiously than 12 months ago because of growing fears of a double-dip recession
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GAM has launched its first market neutral credit fund with credit manager DCI.
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The Dutch province of Gelderland has handed an asset management mandate to ING Investment Management
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J.P.Morgan Chase has hired a head of its European currency research division
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Kuwait has appointed its first independent regulatory body to oversee its stock exchange
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PineBridge Investments has appointed a non-executive chairman
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Schroders has appointed the head of the client service team for its UK institutional business
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StanChart has made several senior appointments into its MENA Financial Markets Business
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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group is planning to launch brokerage businesses in London, New York and Hong Kong
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The Swiss banking group SYZ & CO has appointed a CEO of its institutional asset management division SYZ Asset Management
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Ucits investors’ appetite for risk has suffered, causing assets in Ucits funds to drop by a half
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Pirum Systems hires new client service manager
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Aviva Investors has appointed a CEO of Aviva Investors North America, effective today.
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AXA Investment Managers has appointed a new head of AXA Structured Finance
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Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch has hired a head of its Asia-Pacific wealth management business
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Legalsuper has ended three mandates totalling $62 million as part of a portfolio restructuring
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City Financial has rolled out an Asia fund of hedge funds
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Clearstream has released its July figures.
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Richard Pechter has placed an offer to acquire the money-management unit of investment research firm, Value Line
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FxPro is planning to list on the Alternative Investment Market in October
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General Motors has selected a service provider for daily collateral management, valuation and reconciliations across its over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives portfolio
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GLG Partners has appointed a portfolio manager
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Janus Capital has hired a COO of its Asia-Pacific unit to deliver better service to institutional and wholesale clients
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JP Morgan has appointed the head of its Asia-Pacific commodities business
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JPMorgan Cazenove's UK real estate research & sales, trading and corporate finance team has relocated to Matrix
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NYSE Euronext and Germany's Commerzbank have unveiled two Portuguese ETFs
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Otkritie Financial has hired two senior bankers as part of a significant expansion of its Global Markets and Investment Banking business
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National Depository Center has started trials of an electronic data interchange with the Regional Independent Registrar Agency
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Schroders has appointed Rory Bateman as Head of European Equities with immediate effect
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State Street wins active fixed income mandate from an Italian public fund
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ABN Amro Clearing has relocated its senior management from London to Hong Kong
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Leicestershire County Council has awarded Aegon Asset Management a $2.58 billion mandate
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Barclays has hired a news head of its financial institutions group for the Asia-Pacific region
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Goldman Sachs is shutting down its principal-strategies unit
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Dublin regulators have eased financial market rules
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iShares launches world’s first Euro high yield bond ETF
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Julius Baer is recruiting staff and opening offices in Asia with the aim of doubling Asia's contribution
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Michigan changes hedge fund allocations
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PIMCO hires a new Senior Vice President and head of Business Development in the Benelux region
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Qatar Exchange is now trading with same technology as strategic partner, NYSE Euronext
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Projected total return averages and highs & lows for office, retail and industrial property
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SEI Investments has appointed the managing director and head of its South African operation
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Stenham Asset Management has acquired Montier Partners, a niche discretionary manager
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FORTS has launched trading of the first Russian five-year futures on the USD/RUB exchange rate
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ITB Pension Funds has terminated AXA Rosenberg as a quantitative fund manager
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A California based venture capital firm is to raise $800m
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BGC Partners’ has launched a hybrid voice and electronic execution platform, BGC Trader IRS
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Chi-X Europe, a pan-European stock exchange, has commenced trading of International Depositary Receipts (IDRs)
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Citigroup’s private banking arm has set up a global unit to target family offices around the world
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Hong Kong-based Areion Asset Management has raised around $120 million for a hedge fund that will bet on rising and falling stocks
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Getco has appointed s head of sales for Getco Execution Services
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FRM has appointed a head of its Hong Kong office
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Hermes Fund Management has finally named its head of real estate
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Lazard has hired Pierre Cailleteau from Moody’s Investor Services.
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Legal & General Investment Management has made a number of key hires
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The Teacher Retirement System of Oklahoma has appointed AEW Capital Management, Heitman and L&B Realty Advisors
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RAB Capital promotes CIO to replace the departing Stephen Couttie
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Signet is rolling out its first Ucits-compliant fund of funds for institutional and private-bank clients
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Venezuelan brokerages seized by the government will be permanently closed and probably liquidated
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A Chinese asset manager is planning to launch a registered hedge fund
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Credit Suisse and UBS today were named the 2010 Greenwich Share Leaders in European Equity Trading, with each firm boasting a market share in excess of 11% of overall institutional trading volume in European stocks
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Brussels is discussing a radical overhaul of pan-EU short-selling regulations
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Europeans are divided over the extent of the powers to be granted to the EU's supervisory authorities
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Euroclear group has appointed an executive director, chief technology officer and services officer
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FourWinds Capital Management has appointed a new chief executive of its commodity funds group
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Deutsche Bank rolls out an electronic currency options system
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Galtere is raising about $1 billion for a private equity fund to invest in production facilities for agricultural commodities
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A second veteran fund manager at Gartmore has stepped down
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Man Group has named GLG head Emmanuel Roman as its chief operating officer
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Northern Trust announced today it has created new positions in its Global Fund Services (GFS) business
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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has appointed a director of its fixed-income currencies and commodity prime brokerage team
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Société Générale Private Banking has appointed Olivier Gougeon as chief executive for South Asia
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The CIO of the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) is to step down from his role once his contract expires in August 2011
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Harry Morley has taken over as chief executive of Armajaro Asset Management
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Aviva Investors has promoted Jean-François Boulier to the chief executive role at Aviva Investors Europe
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BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking has made two appointments to its foreign exchange team
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Carmignac Gestion, the Paris-based asset manager, has strengthened its management team.
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CBOE Holdings will roll out its second all-electronic exchange in late October
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Exotix, the frontier markets investment banking boutique, has opened a new office in the Dubai International Finance Centre.
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Fidelity International has appointed KP Luk as head of institutional business for Hong Kong
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France is seeking increased oversight of European commodity derivatives markets to curtail price volatility
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Lincolnshire County Council’s pension fund is looking for a global custodian
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ICAP is launching an electronic market for trading Euro interest rate swaps
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JP Morgan Asset Management has rolled out a range of retail mutual funds in Singapore
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The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has allocated $1.52 billion to UK real estate
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Northern Trust names Director of Strategic Development EMEA in The Netherlands
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RBC Dexia has appointed a director, FX Product Management within its Markets Products & Services division
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Standard Chartered Bank has filled its newly created role of Managing Director & Head, Strategic Client Coverage Group in Origination & Client Coverage
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August
The outlook for the Nordic economies is still fine though clear signs have now emerged of an international slowdown according to a report by Nordea.
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BNY Mellon Broker-Dealer Services appoints two to senior management posts
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued new rules for the retail foreign exchange market
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Citigroup has hired a head of electronic markets and platforms for its securities and fund services (SFS) business in Asia Pacific
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Clariden Leu is rolling out an Ucits fund of hedge funds
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Everstone Capital Management is looking to raise $350 million for a new India fund
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The Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) has lifted its short selling ban
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Two Indiana public pension funds have appointed an investment chief
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LCH.Clearnet will lower the fees it levies on many market participants in London
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Netik, a provider of financial data management and reporting services and products, announced today it has appointed a head of Product Management
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Northern Trust has received a branch licence in Beijing from the China Banking Regulatory Commission
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Schroders has hired a Co-Head of Research of the Quantitative Equity Products Global Equities team
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Charles Schwab has entered into an agreement to acquire ETF portfolio manager, Windward Investment Management
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T. Rowe Price has expanded its Northern Europe team
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Thomson Reuters has added India as a hosting site for Elektron, its new real-time network and hosting environment
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Bats Europe is looking to offer trading of Depository Receipts (DRs) on the Bats Europe Integrated Book and Dark Book
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J.P. Morgan Chase has appointed a global head of institutional sales
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Citigroup has added to its FX team in Asia
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BNP Paribas has appointed a global head of equity derivatives strategy
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is in talks to acquire a stake in London-based European Multilateral Clearing Facility
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Nathalie Bockler has left her role as managing director, Institutional Sales, Equity Finance/1Delta, Global Capital Markets at Societe Generale
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The managing director for Asian operations at Fortis Prime Fund Solutions has stepped down
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HSBC Global Asset Management has appointed a head of sovereigns and supranationals in Asia-Pacific
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Head of the UK institutional business at Union Bancaire Privée (UBP), has resigned from his role
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J.P. Morgan has been appointed depositary bank by India-based producer of synthetic, cotton and blended yarns, Jindal Cotex
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Nomura, the global investment bank, has appointed a head of Equity Capital Markets (ECM)
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A veteran of BlackRock's fixed income business has left the firm
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BlackRock and APG win Dutch mandates
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United Auto Workers’ (UAW) Retiree Medical Benefits Trust has picked Boston-based State Street and New York-based BlackRock to manage $6 billion
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Scipion Capital, a frontier market investment specialist, has selected Centaur Fund Services
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Credit Suisse is expanding its range of Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) to include 13 new products
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The event driven hedge fund strategy has fared well during the global financial crisis and, despite a difficult second quarter this year, looks set to continue outperforming other strategies
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High frequency trading has come under fire from politicians and sections of the financial world, accused of creating market volatility. Those involved in the practice have come out fighting, however, saying they are being unfairly targeted
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The Greek securities regulator is lifting a short-selling ban on shares
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Mark Barnes and Christiane Mandell have left Royal Bank of Scotland’s foreign exchange business
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Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has appointed Andrew November as Director of Equities
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State Street is in discussions to acquire the asset management division of Bank of Ireland
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UBS has appointed a director for the prime brokerage desk in Hong Kong
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The hedge fund association, AIMA is set to engage with US authorities on the Dodd-Frank Act
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Swedish national buffer fund, AP7, has appointed Amundi and Axa to manage two of its Alpha portfolios
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Citigroup has appointed a director for hedge fund sales
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The US Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has acquired a 10% equity stake in Chile’s Central Shares Depository
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In the final installment of Global Investor/isf’s exclusive interview with State Street's new head of securities finance Nick Bonn, he comments on the lawsuit, cash reinvestment, central counterparties and his personal life
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F&C Asset Management expects to complete its acquisition of Thames River Capital in a few days
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The ‘active vs passive’ debate has been a regular fixture in the fund management industry but it is now looking as if the rules are beginning to change with the development of new, smarter investment strategies that require investors to shoulder greater responsibility
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The credit crisis exposed serious systemic flaws in the processes and business models of the credit rating agencies. Since then, the agencies have undergone reforms, driven internally and now from the regulators too. So, what has changed?
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Walter Kraushaar has left Dekabank
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San Diego County Employees Retirement Association has appointed PIMCO to run a cash management account
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Small and mid-cap stock exchange, Plus Markets, has turned into a stock and derivatives exchange
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SEI expands middle office services
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TD Ameritrade Holding has launched futures and foreign-exchange trading capabilities
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UBS has extended the activities of its derivative commodity team in Singapore
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BNY Mellon has appointed a new Head of Trading in Korea
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Chi-X Europe Limited, the pan-European equities exchange has confirmed that it has received an aquisition enquiry
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Illinois Teachers’ Retirement System, Springfield, is planning to sell $3 billion in investments
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Société Générale subsidiary, Lyxor makes ETF push into Chile
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Man Group has appointed Luke Ellis to head its fund of funds business
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Despite a lack of consensus among fund managers on whether the worst is over for the sector, financials bounced back strongly in the MENA region, according to the latest sector update published by Standard & Poor’s Fund Services
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Nikko Asset Management appoints a Head of Asia and establishes new representative office
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Norfolk Pension Fund is looking for investment managers to run global equity mandates
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A class action lawsuit has been filed against Northern Trust in the US.
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RBC Dexia Investor Services has hired a head of global fund products
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Spain launches first multilateral trading platform
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Washington State Investment Board’s (WSIB) private equity investment officer, Brian Roberts, has quit from his current role
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The doom-laden headlines have been such that the The European equities sector is looking like a good example of contrarian investing
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Morningstar, an independent research firm has released its hedge fund performance for July
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Nizam Hamid, head of sales strategy for iShares Europe, has stepped down
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Manulife Asset Management’s unit, Manulife Mutual Funds, has launched six new mutual funds
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Moody Aldrich Partners (MAP) has partnered with Wilshire Funds Management to help in the development of its open architecture hedge fund seeding platform
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Northern Trust has hired to its Client Solutions Group at its asset management unit
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The prospect of retirement is looking like a thing of the past for many Brits as new research from Baring Asset Management reveals that 10% of the working population have no plans to ever stop working
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RBC Global Asset Management launches new fund for Canadian individual investors
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SocGen wins OTC valuation and collateral management services mandate
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Threadneedle has appointed a a head of institutions for Southeast Asia
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Fidessa group has announced that Tokai Tokyo Securities has selected Fidessa’s Software as a Service (SaaS) trading platform
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New Mexico Educational Retirement Board, Santa Fe, will not renew WAMCO’s contract to manage $564 million in core fixed income
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Deutsche Bank will launch its internal Hong Kong dark pool on August 23
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First Republic Bank has appointed Erich Zarnfaller as a managing director of foreign exchange
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IPC Systems today announced that GFI Group has implemented IPC’s IQ/MAX trading solution
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J.P. Morgan Chase's asset management division has reshuffled its investment management unit
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Morgan Stanley Investment Management has appointed Jack O'Connor as managing director and head of North American institutional sales
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Northern Trust has been appointed as custodian by the London Borough of Wandsworth Pension Fund
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Aubrey Capital Management has appointed RBC Dexia Investor Services to offer a complete range of investor services to its Australian domiciled funds
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San Diego County Employees Retirement Association has awarded two fixed income mandates
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TPG Capital is planning to raise $736.4 million for a yuan-denominated fund in Shanghai
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Molins UK Pension Fund has awarded a $467.3 million mandate to Aegon Asset Management
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Boston-based investment group, Ameriprise Financial will combine 62 mutual funds, including several from its acquisition of Columbia Management
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UBS has appointed Lutfey Siddiqi to head fixed income, currencies and commodities corporate coverage group in the Asia-Pacific region
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BNP Paribas has made two key appointments
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China’s sovereign wealth fund may appoint China Asset Management to manage part of its international investments
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In the first of an exclusive two part interview read Nick Bonn's reaction to the departures that rocked the bank and get his thoughts on Premier Global Securities Lending
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US Bank is purchasing First National Trust’s bond and transfer agent business
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The Indian market regulator has expanded disclosure norms for derivative investments and set exposure limits for mutual funds
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NASDAQ OMX is planning to roll out a third equities exchange next month
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State Street Corporation today announced significant enhancements to its risk analytics and servicing tools for institutional investors
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Barclays Capital has launched Shariah-compliant repurchase agreements
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Private Bank Brown Shipley has strengthened its fund management team with the appointment of Simon Nicholas as Senior Fund Manager
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The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) has appointed John Petzold as director of investment management/deputy CIO
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The Conifer Group has hired a Head of Fund Administration and Managing Director
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Deutsche has been added to the Singapore exchange’s securities market
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has expanded its list of counterparties used for reverse repurchase agreements to add money market funds
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Fidessa has announced its global FIX network’s connectivity to Chi-X Japan.
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Emerging markets hedge funds experienced a net withdrawal of $1.5 billion in the second quarter of 2010
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Merlin Securities wins $1 billion mandate
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Russia’s National Depository Center (NDC) and the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange Settlement House Non-Bank Credit Organization (MICEX SH) have launched Delivery Versus Payment (DVP) settlements
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LCH.Clearnet signals further commitment to buy-side offering by naming CEO of SwapClear
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Swedbank has received a local currency licence in China
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Wyoming Retirement Systems is looking for multiple managers to run $560 million
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The Alternative Investment Management Association has urged European Union policymakers to push ahead with reforms of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives
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OneAmerica Funds has appointed BNY Mellon Asset Servicing
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DBS Bank adopts service for OTC derivatives portfolio reconciliation
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City of Edinburgh Council is looking for a global custody and securities lending provider
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Energy Capital has raised $4.335 billion for its second private equity fund
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Global Investor/isf is pleased to announce the attendance of the following firms at our annual Equity Lending and Synthetic Financing awards.
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HSBC has hired foreign exchange executives in Asia and Europe
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The International Islamic Financial Market (IIFM) is looking to set up Shariah-compliant repurchase agreements to help Islamic banks manage funds and boost trading
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Andrew Donohue, the mutual fund regulator of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is resigning from his role
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Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI) has unveiled out a new index fund
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As hedge funds face skyrocketing borrow costs on securities transactions, a new offering by Paladyne aims to help
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Marie Kemp Joins RBS Equity Prime Services as head of EPS Marketing and Distribution, EMEA
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China's long and cautious walk towards a securities lending model is coming to an end
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State Street has been appointed by Strategic Investments Group (SIG) to provide investment services for its new UCITS product, Strategic Active Trading Funds
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York Asset Management and Germany’s Universal Investment have teamed up to launch a global merger arbitrage Newcits fund
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BlackRock will acquire Taiwanese fund manager for an undislosed amount
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Erste Group Bank has appointed HSBC as custodian in Australia and New Zealand
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has published comments supporting its taskforce recommendations
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Mapletree Investments is planning to raise about $928 million for a Japan property fund in 2010
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Morgan Stanley has unveiled its first Ucits III complaint hedge fund
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Northern Trust wins custody mandate
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€1.1bn hit to Norwegian pension fund reveals potential scale of UK pension funds losses on BP
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Penson Financial Services has appointed a new head of sales
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Jane Foley has been appointed as a senior foreign-exchange strategist at Rabobank International
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Global Investor/isf is running a survey in conjunction with SunGard and hope to be able to present the results in the forthcoming IMN/RMA conference issue.
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BATS Global Markets has obtained regulatory approval to launch a second US stock exchange
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Citigroup will unveil dark pool electronic trading in Singapore in early 2011
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Morgan Stanley’s former fixed-income banker, Zoe Cruz, has set up her own hedge fund, Voras Capital Management
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Daiwa Capital Markets, the investment banking arm of leading Japanese brokerage Daiwa Securities Group, has hired Meurig Williams as Regional head of Equity for Europe and the Middle East
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Deutsche Bank has made Angharad Fitzwilliams responsible for sales at its Ucits platform
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Refractory producer, Magnesita Refratários, has appointed Deutsche Bank
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is expanding its European presence
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Investec Asset Management have struck a deal with English Premier League soccer side Tottenham Hotspur to be their new shirt sponsor for all domestic and European cup matches
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Investors in Marshall Wace’s $312 million listed investment fund are set to approve the delisting of the vehicle
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Montana Board of Investments, Helena, is conducting an asset-liability study for the $2.5 billion Montana Teachers’ Retirement System
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Rule Financial has announced the expansion of its consultancy team to support a growing demand from clients for advisory services
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Aberdeen Asset Management’s Asia unit has been granted regulatory approval to invest in Chinese securities
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Nomura has lost its head of debt capital markets for Europe within its FIG division
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Vanguard has terminated AXA Rosenberg’s over $1 billion mandate
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Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds is planning to start an asset allocation and liability study in 2011
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Credit Suisse is planning to launch a $1 billion fund specializing in emerging market debt
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Credit Suisse has announced it will be shedding 75 jobs in London
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Deutsche Bank has won a British depositary mandate
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Goldman Sachs has appointed a successor to Howard Schiller as chief operating officer of the firm’s investment-banking division
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Illinois Teachers’ Retirement System has awarded an additional $322.6 million to its four property fund managers
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ING Investment Management has appointed Grant Bailey as its Asia CEO
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Nomura Securities International has appointed a head of international trading in the Americas
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Private-equity investment in the Nordic countries is poised to match a pre-crisis record
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Mark Hamilton has joined Equity Delta 1 & Financing Prime Services to take up the role of synthetic equity prime trader
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Singapore Mercantile Exchange has received approval to operate as an international commodity and currency derivatives exchange
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UBS AG announced today that Jakob Stott has been named head of UBS Wealth Management Europe
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Alpha Financial Technologies (AFT) has introduced a long-short index designed to capture the economic benefit of price trends within the currency futures markets
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The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC’s) has adopted the FIX Protocol messaging standard for reporting of short positions
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Barclays Capital, the investment-banking unit of Barclays, is planning to lay off 400 back-office staff globally
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Changes to UK pension fund indexation have boosted the case for a global approach to inflation-linked bonds, says Fidelity
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FletcherBennett and Invus Financial Advisors have set up a joint venture to roll out a fund of hedge funds firm
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FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index climbs 6.1 per cent in July 2010
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The fragmentation of US stock trading across 50 venues dominated by computerized traders is hurting investors, say executives
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HSBC has named its new head of emerging markets foreign exchange trading for Asia-Pacific
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In an attempt to widen LaSalle’s appeal among local institutional investors it has launched a new investment vehicle
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LGT Capital Partners and Solutio have rolled out a German private equity fund of fund
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Lockwell Investments has appointed a principal who will be responsible for consultant relations and sales
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Deutsche Bank has spun off the quantitative strategies unit from DB Advisors
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Quvat Management is planning to launch its third private equity fund focusing on South-east Asia
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Taiwan’s Labour Pension Fund has awarded $750 million worth of global emerging-market equity mandates
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Vanguard today announced the restructuring of the investment advisory arrangements for three funds
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Baillie Gifford loses $253 million U.K. equity mandate
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Brazil's BTG Pactual in expanding its asset management and investment banking businesses, making a strategic hire
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Private equity firms are considering buying Morgan Stanley’s troubled real estate funds business
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Chile is planning a new derivative law changes
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Stock brokers in the United Arab Emirates are struggling to make ends meet
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EuroCCP has signed one of the biggest custodians in the world as a general clearing participant
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Invesco has launched the Invesco Latin American Equity Fund
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The pension scheme of London University has appointed Kevin Wade as its investment chief
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Morgan Stanley has hired a top UBS executive to run electronic trading in Japan
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Prudential Bache, the commodities and financial derivatives unit of Prudential Financial has named a new FX sales head
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Schroders has added two Newcits funds to its GAIA platform
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The lead European fund manager at Sloane Robinson has quit the firm
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Standard Chartered hires Global Head of Fixed Income Research
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Troika Dialog’s fund managers outstrip inflation many times over
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UMB Fund Services has been selected to offer mutual fund accounting, administration and tax services