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The Collective Investment Schemes Regulations of November 2005, along with a subsequent ministerial order, a circular from the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV, the Spanish Sec »

Barely a year after the full implementation of the first legislation to give legal recognition to hedge funds in Spain, the industry is starting to move into gear as the first wave of licensed mana »

ABN AMRO, pioneer of the market's inaugural Constant Proportion Debt Obligation (CPDO) in July last year, has launched the first fully managed and fully rated CPDO, managed by Fortis Inves »

Eurex will launch its new software Release 10.0 on 26 November 2007 together with a functionally enhanced interface for the transmission of unnetted market data. »

John McBryan has been appointed Global Head of Client Service as part of Capital Markets Prime Services at Lehman Brothers. »

New fund of hedge funds management group SilverStreet Capital has received FSA approval and has already been awarded a mandate of over USD 500 million from a European institution. »

Hexam Capital Partners has moved its absolute return funds into aggressive net short positions over concerns that global markets are rallying hard because of 'greed and fear' rather than p »

Susan Balloch has joined Blackstone Group's private equity group as an Executive Director. »

Borsa Italiana has commenced trading in 32 ETCs, the financial instruments which replicate the trend of commodities or of indices of commodities. »

NOS Clearing, the Oslo-based clearing house for commodity derivatives and Fish Pool ASA, the Bergen-based seafood futures market, have launched the world's first cleared futures contracts »