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Clearstream’s September 2014 Figures Clearstream Maintains Record Levels In Assets Under Custody - Double Digit Growth In Collateral Management And Investment Fund Streams - Philip Brown: "Regulatory Readiness Is Now A Major Priority"

Date 13/10/2014

Business stream 1: Custody 

In September 2014, the overall value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers registered an increase of 5 percent to EUR 12.3 trillion (compared to EUR 11.7 trillion in September 2013).

Three More Firms Sign For Duco, Patrick Thornton-Smith Now CMO

Date 13/10/2014

Duco today announced that three further customers signed for Duco Cube in September. All three firms are well-­‐known service providers with extensive global clients in the cash equity, derivative and fixed income markets.  

76% Expect Dealmaking In Europe To Increase, According To Survey By Mergermarket And CMS

Date 13/10/2014

Europe’s executives are more bullish about the European M&A outlook than they were a year ago, according to the second edition of the European M&A Outlook: a study of European M&A, by Mergermarket in association with CMS. Of the 225 Europe-based corporate executives surveyed, 76% expect that dealmaking will increase or increase greatly, a 28 percentage point increase from last year’s study. Attitudes about Europe’s economic recovery have improved significantly and the majority believe that the worst is behind us.

IFC, Spain Strengthen Collaboration For Private Sector Development In Emerging Markets

Date 13/10/2014

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO) will streamline their collaboration to provide much-needed financing to private companies and help boost growth and jobs in emerging markets.

FTSE Launches New Benchmarks For UK DC Pensions Market

Date 13/10/2014

• Represents the performance of a DC pension fund’s glide path
• Can be customised for any DC pension scheme
• Helps enable robust governance for auto-enrolment’s 9 million new DC savers
• New Partnership with Elston Consulting 

Low-Latency Specialist Metamako Sets Up European Operations With Covington

Date 13/10/2014

Australian-based Metamako, supplier of ultra low-latency devices to exchanges and the trading community, has retained the services of Kevin Covington to mastermind its European expansion strategy. One of the original creators of the HFT-enabling co-location concept, in recent years Covington has been working with a leading global asset management company to extend and develop the international presence of ITRS Group. With significant experience of building, running and selling financial technology companies, Covington has been tasked by the Metamako board to develop the infrastructure for the company’s European operations to broaden out the business in London and other major trading cities in Europe.

Siron®FD/R – Powerful Anti-Fraud In Real-Time - Perfect Anti-Fraud Solution Thanks To Complex Event Processing (CEP)

Date 13/10/2014

TONBELLER, internationally leading software provider of anti-financial crime solutions, launches Siron®FD/R, a cutting-edge real-time solution against the most various fraud scenarios.

Xetra/Börse Frankfurt: Four New iShares ETFs Launched On Xetra - ETFs Offer Access To Strategy Indices On MSCI World

Date 13/10/2014

Four new iShares equity index ETFs from BlackRock's product offering have been tradable in Deutsche Börse’s XTF segment on Xetra.  

Links Commodities Choose Trayport For European Rapeseed Oil Markets

Date 13/10/2014

Trayport, a leading provider of energy trading solutions to traders, brokers and exchanges worldwide, today announced that Links Commodities are now using Trayport’s GlobalVision Broker Trading SystemSM (BTS) for the FOB Dutch Mill NOFOTA rapeseed oil paper contract and to aid some physical trading.

Gunvor Launches US$ 900 Million Revolving Credit Facility

Date 13/10/2014

Gunvor Group Ltd ("Gunvor" or the "Group") is pleased to announce the launch of the syndication of a US$ 900 million Revolving Credit Facility (the "Facility") in favor of Gunvor International B.V. and Gunvor SA (the "Borrowers"). The Facility will replace the maturing tranche of the Borrower's Revolving Credit Facility dated 6 December 2013 and be used to finance general corporate and working capital requirements.