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Increasing numbers of activist short selling campaigns in Canada raise concerns
21 December 2020 Canada
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Canadian council of securities regulators has published a consultation paper to facilitate discussion about activist short selling after Canadian market stakeholders raise concerns Canada

DTCC to create “the most comprehensive pre-and-post-trade reporting solution”
10 December 2020 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has acquired Publicis Sapient’s Compliance Management Reporting System and will integrate it with its own reporting hub to enable firms to better manage pre-and-post reporting processes

Pirum appoints Lilien as director of business development – Americas
20 November 2020 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Matthew Lilien joins after 14 years at J.P. Morgan, where he most recently served as international equity finance vice president

Credit Suisse goes live with the Torstone SaaS platform
04 November Toronto
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) has a dedicated securities finance system that will now feed into the Torstone platform, which is the core books & records for the equities business, capturing all trades

RBC I&TS: Canadian pensions buoyed by positive performance in equity markets
30 October 2020 Toronto
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The median year-to-date return for Canadian defined benefits plans stood at 5.2 percent for the period ending 30 September

Equity returns fuel Q3 Canadian pension fund returns
29 October 2020 Toronto
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Canadian equities, as measured by the S&P/TSX Composite Index, generated a return of 4.7 percent for the quarter, with all sectors posting gains with the exception of the health care and energy sectors

CIBC Mellon to provide securities lending admin services to iA Financial Group
01 September 2020 Toronto
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

CIBC Mellon will offer fund accounting and administration, custody, securities lending administration, and foreign exchange processing and settlement services

Canadian pension funds report record-breaking quarterly returns
05 August 2020 Toronto
Reporter: Drew Nicol

RBC Investor & Treasury Services' All Plan Universe shows that Canadian pension plans saw their highest single quarter returns for Q2, after suffering the steepest revenue decline since 2008 in Q1

Bank of Canada announces new securities repo operations
22 July 2020 Canada
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Bank of Canada is introducing new repo operations to bolster market liquidity

Central banks to wind down daily US dollar liquidity operations
22 June 2020 Frankfurt
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The European Central Bank and other major central banks are readjusting its provision of US dollar liquidity as warranted by market conditions

COVID-19: Canada scales back emergency operations as markets improve
08 June 2020 Toronto
Reporter: Natalie Turner

As the financial environment improves, the Bank of Canada is scaling back some of its market operations; overnight repo rates hold firm

ISLA CEO calls on global regulators to revisit SFT reporting alignment
29 May 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Andrew Dyson notes that the “apparent lack of global coordination” means European firms may feel the high level of regulatory scrutiny “puts them at some sort of commercial disadvantage”