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Bears lose £420m on FTSE 100 in August

04 September 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Nearly three-quarters of total short losses came from bets made against five companies: Ocado Group, InterContinental Hotels Group, International Consolidated Airlines Group, and BHP Group and Pearson

TriOptima and AcadiaSoft extend partnership

03 September 2020 London
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

TriOptima has renewed its collaboration with AcadiaSoft to automate monthly collateral interest payments in order to improve the efficiency of trade processing for OTC market participants

Extinction Rebellion protests oil-friendly pension funds

03 September 2020 Taunton
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The environmental activist group held demonstrations outside the offices of Somerset Council to highlight its distaste at the public pension fund’s continued investment in fossil fuels

SRD II is live, compliance hurdles remain

03 September 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Due to a host of issues and on-going challenges, 11 trade associations are requesting a one-year reprieve from possible fines and penalties for non-compliance

ESMA selects CCP Supervisory Committee members

03 September 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Following an open selection process, the board of supervisors has submitted its selected candidates to the European Parliament

T-Scape to develop voting management solution for investment managers

02 September 2020 London
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The development was driven by regulatory requirements of the second Shareholder Rights Directive which comes into force on 3 September

CSDR SDR: firms that use delay to improve internal infrastructure to be biggest winners

02 September 2020 London
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Karan Kapoor, head of regulatory change and technology at Delta Capita, suggested the key will be to make settlement efficiency improvement a joint objective for front-office and operations teams

State Street securities finance trader Zoë Balkwell to leave

02 September 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Balkwell is the founder and chair of SHINE, the Mental Health Network at State Street, which was launched in January 2018

OCC securities lending volume dips in August

02 September 2020 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Before last month, the Chicago-based CCP had seen continuous improvement in securities lending loan volumes and activity, compared the relevant period in 2019, since January

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

GPFA targets membership growth

01 September 2020 Ontario
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The CalPERS-backed association says it has received a deluge of interest from other beneficial owners since launching in July

Exclusive: Sunil Daswani takes the reins at Standard Chartered

31 August 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Daswani has begun a new role as global head of agency securities lending, based in London

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