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Merlin Securities

• Website: http://merlinsecurities.com/prime-brokerage-services/
• Location: New York, San Franciso
• Phone: +1.415.848.4050, +1.212.419.3900
• Regulations: member FINRA and SIPC
• Other: With a virtualization solution from Dell, Merlin Securities simplifies its data center, reduces the server footprint by 60% and saves power, cooling and floor space costs.

Description from Website:

Merlin provides advanced reporting, trading, and operational services to single as well as multi-primed hedge funds, fund of funds, and long-only managers. As an introducing broker to both J.P. Morgan Clearing Corporation and Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing, Merlin offers diversification and security of assets.

Merlin Securities provides hedge fund managers with an integrated Prime Brokerage Services offering that encompasses all of a fund’s service, trading and technology needs. At the forefront of Merlin’s offerings is a Web-based reporting platform featuring Merlin’s Shadow, Attribution, Risk and Performance (SHARP) reporting. This dynamic, customizable reporting system facilitates transaction-based attribution, risk reporting, exposure over time, custom bucketing of portfolio characteristics and a bespoke reporting tool that allows for ad hoc customized reports.

Additionally, as a client of Merlin, your reports are available same day, every day—specifying the performance effect of every transaction, with data aggregated by Prime Broker/custodian and account and stored live in our database virtually forever.

In addition to its award winning reporting technology, Merlin’s service offering includes operational support, trading solutions (direct market access and our live trading desk), capital development, and access to research and ideas.

Merlin Prime Brokerage Services’ clients are provided with the safety and global clearing/settlement resources of J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp and/or Goldman Sachs (GSEC) while receiving the service, executions, technology and reporting from Merlin.

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Articles on Merlin Securities by Hedge Fund Focus:

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