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Morgan Stanley launches asset allocation tool

Morgan Stanley has made available a new online asset allocation tool for retail private clients who want to position their portfolios for longer-term growth.

16 August 2002

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Regulatory bodies to penalise Wall Street banks over e-mail - NY Times

US securities regulators may fine six investment banks as much as $10 million for not keeping e-mail messages as required, according to a report in the New York Times.

02 August 2002

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Morgan Stanley e-enables accounts payable

Morgan Stanley has implemented a new business-to-business electronic payment system from Clareon to initiate and send payments, along with detailed remittance information, to vendors and suppliers.

25 March 2002

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Omgeo names CTM early adopters

Trade matching joint venture Omgeo is reporting that 17 firms have signed on as 'early adopters' of its Central Trade Manager (Omgeo CTM) global STP platform, including six investment managers, three broker-dealers, five custodian banks, two STP vendor partners.

23 January 2002

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Lehman to purchase Morgan Stanley tower block

Lehman Brothers is to purchase a New York office block from Morgan Stanley, in a sale which resolves significant disaster planning and recovery complications for both firms.

08 October 2001

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Morgan Stanley pulls out of Jiway

Morgan Stanley has pulled out of Jiway, the loss-making pan-European share trading platform for retail investors established in partnership with Swedish technology group OM.

27 September 2001

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Morgan Stanley: fewer than 40 lives lost at WTC

Morgan Stanley says that the number of employees who may have lost their lives in the World Trade Center terrorist attack on Tuesday is less than 40.

14 September 2001

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Morgan Stanley chairman Purcell counts human cost

Message from Morgan Stanley chairman Philip Purcell: "The shocking events of this week at the World Trade Centre have not posed a financial problem for Morgan Stanley but a deeply human one. What dominates our concerns are those people who may not have escaped the explosion and fires as the twin towers collapsed.

13 September 2001

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Morgan Stanley chooses new Web content solution

Morgan Stanley has chosen Documentum's 4i Web Content Management Edition to manage its online content.

17 July 2001

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First Call signs Morgan Stanley as charter Broker Partner

Morgan Stanley has become the charter member of First Call Broker Partners, a new multi-broker research programme from Thomson Financial. Institutions using the service get single sign-on access to Broker Partner Web sites via First Call's own Internet portal.

10 July 2001

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Jiway seeks fresh capital and new investors

Pan-European retail stock market Jiway is seeking a EUR60 million cash injection, over and above the original EUR100 million pumped in to the troubled venture by joint shareholders OM and Morgan Stanley.

03 July 2001

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Morgan Stanley and Algorithmics partner for Web-based risk management

Toronto-based Algorithmics and Morgan Stanley Prime Brokerage have launched AlgoLink, a joint application service provider (ASP) venture to deliver risk management services to hedge fund clients.

25 June 2001

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