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ISLA: Liquidity aims of CMU face obstacles

24 March 2017 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

EU legislators should open up UCITS fund securities lending and pay closer attention to the lending of government bonds to meet its liquidity targets when developing the capital markets union

JCPenney in fashion for short sellers

24 March 2017 London
Reporter: Katherine Brown

FIS Astec Analytics examines its top pick for short sellers for the week starting 13 March

Securities lending gives iShares ETF the edge

24 March 2017 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Morningstar has highlighted securities lending revenues as a key feature of high-performing EU ETFs

ISLA bags ECB’s Jessé as keynote speaker

24 March 2017 Berlin
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ISLA secured the ECB's Marc Bayle de Jessé as a keynote for its conference in Berlin in June

ESMA unable to quantify haircut market risk

23 March 2017 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Authority forced to wait for SFTR to understand the potential risk to market stability posed by the use of haircuts in SFTs

SEC to move US to T+2

23 March 2017 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Members of the SEC’s industry steering committee, including DTCC and SIFMA, were quick to praise the commission on the amendment

UK pension funds embrace alternatives

22 March 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

UK public sector pension funds are jostling to expand their alternatives exposure as a way to diversify their portfolios ahead of the launch of the Local Government Pension Scheme pooling project in April 2018

Hedge funds open to fee cuts to restore investor confidence after 2016 cull

22 March 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Hedge funds are slashing fees to woo back investors and recover from significant capital outflows in 2016

Northern Trust retains Australian pension fund custody mandate

22 March 2017 Melbourne
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Northern Trust has received a renewed endorsement from the Australian government employee and Australian Defence Force pension fund

Bundesbank president calls for review of ECB bond purchase policy

21 March 2018 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Strong EU-wide economic growth means the European Central Bank should finally begin unwinding its “very loose monetary policy”, according to the president of the German Federal Bank

SIX Securities Services unveils blockchain bond issuance solution

21 March 2017 Zurich
Reporter: Katherine Brown

SIX Securities Services has created a distributed ledger technology solution to cover the entire bond lifecycle, from issuance to settlement, in partnership with Digital Asset Holdings

EU securities lending due for fresh review

20 March 2017 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

A European Securities Markets Authority advisory group has begun a new study of the EU's regulatory oversight of its securities lending markets, with a focus on a possible divergent application of the UCITS guidelines

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