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Earnings up but jobs cut at State Street

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... information technology workers moving to tech firms IBM or Wipro while a further 530 will have their jobs eliminated, the company said on its website. The firm announced last year it would cut 1400 positions and those roles are still being lost with ...

Opes Prime directors admit guilt

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... Blumberg, the former directors of Opes Prime Stockbroking (OPSL), pleaded guilty to charges related to the collapse of the company in 2008, which left around $630 million owed to creditors. Facing charges brought by ASIC in front of the Supreme Court ...

UK tech firm gives spine to newly competitive Australian market

FIDESSA AND ASX RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... all Australian lit venues including Chi-X markets. Trades will also be routed to ASX dark pools such as VolumeMatch. The company has partnered with the Australian Stock Exchange to offer the new platform, ASX Best. It will be distributed later this year ...

JB Global submits to independent review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... personal advice files after the Australian Securities and Investment Commission imposed new licence conditions on the company. JB Global will also offer remediation to any clients who may have received inappropriate advice, review some client advice ...

Growing SMA use hits education barrier

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... managed fund structure," she said. McKeage said the sector was taking off, and despite the negative share market, her company had seen four straight months of substantially positive net fund inflows. Her company's SMA added 10% of its entire advisor ...

Institutional appetite for RMBS behind lender acquisition

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... with institutional investors. According to Mark Forsyth, chief executive officer of Firstfolio, the deal provides the company with the scale to enter the non-bank lending market. "Two to three years after the worst of the financial crisis, institutional ...

Yellow Brick Road seals deal with Nine

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... promoted on television by the Nine Network at discounted rates after the media group formalised its purchase of 19.9% of the company today. Yellow Brick Road today announced it had entering into formal binding contracts on the deal that was first announced ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... hacking scandal at the now defunct News of the World newspaper. Rebekah Brooks, who resigned as chief executive of the company's UK publishing arm over the weekend, was arrested by UK authorities. The company's voting shares were down 6.91 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... from Google Inc. Google jumped nearly 13 per cent, the most of any stock in the Standard and Poor's 500 index, after the company said its revenue hit a record last quarter. Google's earnings pushed tech stocks in the S&P index broadly higher. Microsoft ...

You can't handle the truth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... But financial markets are onto their cheating hearts. According to Bloomberg, "The cost of insuring European financial-company debt against default stayed higher after the tests. The Markit iTraxx Financial Index of credit-default swaps on the senior ...