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Broadridge expands European fund regulatory reporting capabilities

22 March 2021 UK
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The Broadridge and Virtu partnership will provide a solution for asset managers to disclose transaction costs as they fulfil MiFID II and PRIIPs fund reporting requirements

Three of Australia’s largest super funds stop lending

22 March 2021 Australia
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Since the onset of COVID-19 last year, three of Australia’s top-five largest superannuation funds, representing more than AUS 400 billion in AuM, have closed or significantly curtailed their programmes due to anti-short selling sentiment

CSDR consultation responses show majority in favour of buy-ins becoming voluntary

19 March 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Responses from the consultation, which ran from 8 December last year to 1 February this year, also showed that 14 respondents requested the buy-in regime be retained while 26 either did not respond or were neutral

BCS Global Markets taps Singh for securities finance top job

19 March 2021 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Raj Karan Singh has taken over as global head of securities finance for boutique prime broker BCS Global Markets, after Christian von Gradowski moved elsewhere

IHS Markit releases new portfolio analytics tool

19 March 2021 US
Reporter: Alex Pugh

The data analytics provider says portfolio managers will be able to better manage risk across their stock portfolios

SEC chair calls on index funds to carefully weigh SBL revenue and voting obligations

19 March 2021 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The agency’s acting chair is calling for a review of the SEC’s 2019 guidance on proxy voting which she argues put too much emphasis on capturing incremental revenue from securities lending at the expense of exercising good corporate governance