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LCH.Clearnet expands SwapClear service
04 March 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

LCH.Clearnet is launching a new interest rate portfolio margining capabilities within its SwapClear service...

Growth ahead for the hedge fund industry
03 March 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The hedge fund industry is set to surpass the $3 trillion mark by the end of 2015, according to Deutsche Bank’s 13th annual alternative investment survey...

ESMA to focus on risks and fair fees in 2015
17 February 2015 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

ESMA will prioritise minimising systemic risk for credit rating agencies in 2015 and 16, while investigating data quality and fees charged by trade repositories...

SS&C GlobeOp sees uptick in hedge fund index
12 February 2015 Luxembourg
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SS&C GlobeOp has released its figures for January 2015, reporting a gross return of 1.18 percent on its Hedge Fund Performance Index, an increase from 0.11 percent in December 2014...

DTCC’s GMEI claims 50% share of global LEIs
09 February 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

DTCC has reported significant growth for its global markets entity identifier (GMEI) in collaboration with SWIFT...

China Merchants Securities live on Fidessa platform
02 February 2015 Hong Kong
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

China Merchants Securities has gone live on Fidessa’s managed and outsourced Asian trading platform, making the upgrade to benefit for additional capabilities...

Citi survey suggests hedge fund struggles
30 January 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The hedge fund industry could see about a 30 percent dip in profits in 2014 compared to 2013, due to poor performance...

SGSS chooses LCH.Clearnet for cash equities
21 January 2015 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Société Générale Securities Services has selected LCH.Clearnet as its main clearer of pan-European interoperable cash equities, consolidating its cash equity business...

SEC hits UBS with record $12 million penalty
19 January 2015 Washington DC
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

A subsidiary of UBS has agreed to pay a record penalty after been charged by the SEC with disclosure and confidentiality violations related to the operation and marketing of its dark pool...

SS&C hedge funds see January decline
14 January 2015 Connecticut
Reporter: Stephen Durham

So far in January 2015, hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index have already declined 2.95 percent from December 2014...

BlackRock builds iShares team
05 January 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BlackRock has appointed Matthew Fowles to its iShares team to focus exclusively on the securities lending ecosystem and to help propel ETFs in to the mainstream assets market...

Bank of Russia approves NSD
19 December 2014 Moscow
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NSD) has passed the Bank of Russia’s assessment of its payment system...