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Fidelity Clearing Canada has enhanced its Streetscape workstation with additional market research news and information as well as syndication data on new issue distribution and reporting.

Bankers are fond of the Small Business Lending Fund, but the SBLF is playing hard to get.

Credit card customers are the happiest they've been since the financial crisis, thanks in part to a government crackdown on the card industry.

Raymond James & Associates has snapped up a father and son Bank of America Merrill Lynch financial advisor team who previously oversaw $114 million in client assets.

Aside from a disappointing sales outlook from tech leader Dell, investors had little economic data to react to or run from Wednesday, resulting in a fairly eventless day of trading across the board.

Is the sale by Ameriprise Financial of its Securities America advisory services unit to Ladenburg Thalmann a harbinger of yet another wave -- or wavelet -- of consolidation in the asset management industry?

With the market and economy turbulent, fund managers are steering away from equities and toward the safe haven of cash.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors this week said John Ryan will succeed Neil Milner as its new president and CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2012.

Securities America’s senior management will remain intact after the firm comes under the Ladenburg Thalmann umbrella. What will the future bring for advisors and clients?

Exchanges around the world should discourage market participants from gcreating excessive low-qualityh messages that can clog trading networks, two trade groups representing automated trading firms said this week.

Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services will acquire Securities America, the embattled, independent broker-dealer subsidiary of Ameriprise, for an initial payment of $150 million in cash, according to a company statement released Wednesday morning.

Socialware, the Austin, Texas-based firm that helps mutual fund, brokerage and other financial services firms track their social media communications and stay in compliance with company and industry regulations, has secured another $7 million in funding.

The debt ceiling debate, the nation’s credit rating downgrade, market declines and unemployment are taking a serious toll on investors, causing the Country Financial Security Index to fall 1.3 points in August to 62.4, a record low.

Middle-income Baby Boomers, those earning between $30,000 and $74,000 are vastly underserved in terms of preparing for retirement, according to a new report from the Insured Retirement Institute, “Middle-Income Boomers and Retirement: Tapping the Significant and Underserved Middle-Income Market.”

Cantor Fitzgerald is in the process of launching an ETF Arbitrage business that will provide customers with two-sided ETF markets, encompassing full-service execution, research and market color.

The list of objections to the risk retention proposal appears endless. While most of the attention so far has focused on an exemption to the plan for "qualified residential mortgages," bankers' fears about the proposal go far beyond that.

Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services will acquire Securities America, the embattled, independent broker-dealer subsidiary of Ameriprise, for an initial payment of $150 million in cash, according to a company statement released Wednesday morning.

A senior employee known as an aggressive workaholic, but who seems stressed, yet rarely takes vacations, declines promotions and zealously protects his business unit from outside scrutiny while personally handling choice vendors may be up to something devious.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed out its first losing session in four days Tuesday as investors sold shares despite the best efforts of German and French economic leaders to assuage fears that debt issues will hamstring their respective economies.

With the market and economy turbulent, fund managers are steering away from equities and toward the safe haven of cash.