While BNY Mellon's Martin Smith notes that the penalty regime is fairly understood, he highlights that there is a question mark over what is going to happen with the buy ins
A team of capital markets veterans including Matthew Peakman, Chris Hagstrom and Mark Toone are unveiling Kayenta, a fintech promising to bring efficiency to the hedge fund treasury functions with a focus on reducing the cost of financing
The Broadridge and Virtu partnership will provide a solution for asset managers to disclose transaction costs as they fulfil MiFID II and PRIIPs fund reporting requirements
Since the onset of COVID-19 last year, three of Australia’s top-five largest superannuation funds, representing more than AUS 400 billion in AuM, have closed or significantly curtailed their programmes due to anti-short selling sentiment
Responses from the consultation, which ran from 8 December last year to 1 February this year, also showed that 14 respondents requested the buy-in regime be retained while 26 either did not respond or were neutral
Raj Karan Singh has taken over as global head of securities finance for boutique prime broker BCS Global Markets, after Christian von Gradowski moved elsewhere
The agency’s acting chair is calling for a review of the SEC’s 2019 guidance on proxy voting which she argues put too much emphasis on capturing incremental revenue from securities lending at the expense of exercising good corporate governance
In partnership with Allen & Overy, ISLA has written a white paper outlining its action plan to tackle five key challenges standing between the peaceful coexistence of securities lending and ESG
Capitolis says upcoming regulations like Standard Approach to Counterparty Credit Risk will have a major effect on the capitalisation of financial institutions
