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Former State Street exec Schumaker moves to Vesttoo
28 May 2021 Israel
Reporter: Alex Pugh

Schumaker has experience expanding profitable lines of business, including the alternative financing solutions business at State Street, as well as lucrative securities lending, financing and collateral reinvestment programs for Credit Suisse

Saudi investment firm RIC joins ISLA
27 May 2021 Saudia Arabia
Reporter: Alex Pugh

The investment firm, based in Riyadh, manages Saudi Arabia’s civil service pension pot

PASLA and RMA launch global ESG securities lending framework
27 May 2021 Hong Kong
Reporter: Alex Pugh

The industry associations have developed an ESG framework, based on surveys and other research, which satisfies a desire among global asset managers to take a more hands-on approach to ESG principles in their securities finance programmes

Global PSSL expands advisory board
26 May 2021 US
Reporter: Alex Pugh

The Global PSSL’s stated aims are to unite the sustainable finance ambitions of market leaders with the tenets of sustainable securities lending

ESMA firms up guidelines for SFT position calculation by trade repositories
26 May 2021 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

EU securities market regulator applies framework to ensure consistency across EMIR and SFTR

Central clearing key to risk reduction in US Treasury Market, says DTCC
26 May 2021 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

DTCC report identifies dangers of fragmentation and contagion risk in US Treasury clearing

Evgeny Pavlovsky moves to BCS Global Markets
26 May 2021 Russia
Reporter: Alex Pugh

Pavlovsky joins the investment banking services division of Russia’s largest independent broker with the aim to streamline the firm’s complex organisational structure and boost business performance

Bujakowski moves to AccessFintech from Thought Machine
25 May 2021 UK
Reporter: Alex Pugh

The B2B Software-as-a-Service expert has extensive experience building and scaling infrastructure to hit multi-million dollar revenues

ESMA calls for lowering notification threshold of short positions
24 May 2021 France
Reporter: Alex Pugh

The reporting threshold on short positions was lowered from 0.2 per cent to 0.1 per cent in March last year but has since lapsed — leaving a data black hole, the regulator says

Northern Trust gains securities lending mandate for the UK coal pension schemes
24 May 2021 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Northern Trust is providing Coal Pension Trustees Services with securities lending, valuation reporting, performance measurement, foreign exchange and global custody services

ISLA publishes GMSLA 2020 US tax addendum
21 May 2021 France
Reporter: Alex Pugh

The addendum covers qualified derivative dealer and securities lender status’

ESMA appoints new director
20 May 2021 France
Reporter: Alex Pugh

Natasha Cazenave has a background in corporate finance and consultancy and is only ESMA’s second executive director