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ISLA responds to BMF’s draft circular
20 February 2018 London
Reporter: Brian Bollen

The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) has sent a letter to the German Ministry of Finance responding to the BMF’s draft circular released on 25 January 2018 on the subject of a manufactured dividend rule

Fidessa sees revenue growth across all regions in 2017
20 February 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Fidessa has reported that its yearly revenue increased by 7 percent for 2017, ending the year with £353.9 million compared to £331.9 million in 2016

Foreign investment in US down
19 February 2018 Washington DC
Reporter: Brian Bollen

Official figures, released 15 February, by the US Department of the Treasury show a drop in foreign investment in the US in December

Citi’s agency lending sales chief departs
16 February 2018 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Citi’s Americas head of sales for it’s agency securities lending, collateral management, and separate account cash management businesses, Jeff Bonaldi, has left to pursue a number of entrepreneurial ventures

Short seller targets ‘loan shark’ Capitec
07 February 2018 Cape Town
Reporter: Brian Bollen

US research firm and short seller Viceroy Research has released a report to explain why “loan shark” Capitec should be placed into curatorship by the South African Reserve Bank

SBL represents structural vulnerability, says IOSCO
05 February 2018 Madrid
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

IOSCO’s 2018 Liquidy Recommendations reflect the “constantly changing market environment for which those responsible for managing CIS must be prepared”

EACH welcomes CCP recovery and resolution work
01 February 2018 Brussels
Reporter: Brian Bollen

EACH has welcomed the progress made by the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs to strengthen legislative proposal from the European Commission on central counterparty recovery and resolution

Teva, J.C. Penny and SPI Energy feature in FIS hot stock lists
01 February 2018 London
Reporter: Zsuzsanna Szabo

Teva led the FIS Astec Analytics hot stocks list for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, for the week starting 29 January

ISLA celebrates lending tax amendments
26 January 2018 Berlin
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The German Federal Ministry of Finance has published an amended draft of its guidance on the application of the new provision of GITA 2018, following an outcry of concern from the securities lending industry

US leverage ratio reform is back on the table
24 January 2018 Washington
Reporter: Zsuzsa Szabo

Wall Street is set to get another bite of the cherry on reforms to the controversial leverage ratio rules under Basel III, that currently stifles securities lending activity, with the appointment of Trump’s new head of the FDIC

Switzerland reviews securities lending transactions rules
17 January 2018 Zurich
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Switzerland’s FTA has re-opened the rulebook on the country’s withholding tax

Murex’s MX.3 goes live at Nationwide
17 January 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Murex's MX.3 front-to-back risk platform has gone live for Nationwide Building Society's treasury business