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ISLA puts ESG centre stage for 2021
21 December 2020 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ISLA's newly-launched ESG steering group is split into four key pillars: thought leadership, advocacy, regulation and best practice. Each will take on an element of advancing the integration of sustainable financing into securities lending

Global PSSL opens principles to market review
16 December 2020 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Global Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending has launched a public consultation on its draft ESG principles and is requesting responses to a survey

Hedge fund “titans” to spearhead Global PSSL workstream
15 December 2020 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters Capital, Gabriel Grego, managing partner of Quintessential Capital Management, and John Hempton, founder of Bronte Capital, will co-chair the new Short – Long Investments and ESG workstream alongside Radek Stech

Zimmerhansl joins Global PSSL’s new college of advisors
11 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The creation of the college comes shortly after Securities Finance Times, formerly Securities Lending Times, became the first media outlet to gain official ‘media observer’ status

ISLA to combine ESG initiatives after ICSF closure
04 November 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ISLA has invited all relevant council members and partners to join its ESG working groups after the council is wound down and says it will take on the mantle of its work in advancing the sustainability agenda

PSSL Global CEO Radek Stech joins Bretton Woods committee
22 October 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Radek Stech, the CEO of the Global Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending, has joined the Bretton Woods Committee alongside other representatives from the Bank of England, BlackRock, Harvard University and the World Economic Forum

ICSF chair launches Global Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending
15 October 2020 Exeter
Reporter: Drew Nicol & Natalie Turner

Radek Stech — who will act as CEO of Global PSSL alongside his role as the council’s chair — says the new entity will take its original initiative to a new level by expanding beyond the association’s primary focus of EMEA, to all regions worldwide