Concept Capital Markets has recruited Jay Davis from J.P. Morgan as senior vice president for client service in its prime brokerage services group. The firm has also opened a new office in San Francisco...
The Chicago Board Options Exchange will pay a $6 million penalty and implement major remedial measures for 鈥淸failing] to enforce or even fully comprehend rules to prevent abusive short selling鈥...
Singapore Exchange is consulting the public on proposed circuit breakers for the securities market. Subject to regulatory approval and industry readiness, it plans to introduce them by the end of 2013...
Ruston Smith has been appointed chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds. He will succeed Mark Hyde Harrison, whose two-year tenure ends at the NAPF Annual General Meeting on 18 October...
The CEO of AIMA is stepping down from his role at the end of the year. Andrew Baker has been CEO since the beginning of 2009. The association is in the process of finding his successor...
Societe Generale Corporate Investment Bank has extended the role of LLoyd Michaels, in efforts to promote a synthetic alternative to prime brokerage...
The Bank of England has released a new article on central counterparties in light of its new responsibilities for the supervision of securities settlement systems and CCPs in the UK...
RBC Investor & Treasury Services will provide securities lending, global custody and collateral management services to Polaris Investment after being named the fund manager鈥檚 global custodian...
UBS has appointed Clearstream as its primary International Central Securities Depository (ICSD), in a move that will consolidate the majority of its securities custody, settlement, and financing business...
Finadium and SunGard have identified five key trends in prime brokerage services and technology that they say are driving new approaches to client service to help firms achieve agile growth...
State Street has named Michael Bell as executive vice president and member of its management committee, the company鈥檚 senior-most policy-making and strategy group...