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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

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 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

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

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

ISLA’s ESG council has partnered with four more agent lenders to further its PSSL initiative and reach more EMEA beneficial owners

BNY Mellon and the RMA are the latest to partner with ISLA’s Council for Sustainable Finance to promote its principles for sustainable securities lending

ISLA’s council has added Norges Bank Investment Management to its member base and gained new partnerships with trade bodies and data providers

SFT asked 12 firms about their priorities and expectations for 2022. With the advancement of technology and the adoption of new regulation at the forefront of many minds, participants are set to release new products and services as they enter the new year with a positive mindset and high hopes for the industry. Carmella Haswell reports

The ultra-high growth ESG sector claims to have laudable aims of offering investors a way to support the transition to a more sustainable world, but is market enthusiasm creating a breeding ground for fraud? Short sellers think so

ESG was firmly in the spotlight well before COVID-19 ran a coach and horses through global economies

The Asia Pacific region remains a hot-bed of activity for securities lending markets and PASLA has been proactively assisting the region’s markets in their evolution