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ESG: look before you leap

The ultra-high growth ESG sector claims to have laudable aims of offering investors a way to support the transition to a more sustainable world, but is market enthusiasm creating a breeding ground for fraud? Short sellers think so

In the crosshairs: US hedge funds’ leverage strategies to be scrutinised

The US Treasury’s revived hedge fund working group will continue where it left off, says Jonah Crane, who led the group in 2016, after the pandemic focused minds from both sides of the political aisle on market stressors

Regulators promise to think about looking into tightening short selling rules

Looking beyond the ESG hype

ESG is a hot-button topic, but are agent lenders’ and beneficial owners’ priorities aligned?

Securities lending: Setting the record straight. Let’s address what may be holding you back

Don D’Eramo, head of securities finance at RBC Investor & Treasury Services, offers an overview of why a securities lending programme can offer low-risk returns and support capital market liquidity

LEIs, damn LEIs and statistics

With poor adoption and a grace period ending today, is the adoption of LEIs outside of the EEA ever going to gain momentum?

Rainmakers

Rob Verrillo, CEO of ConneXXion Markets, updates SFT on where the electronic repo platform fits into the modern financing landscape to provide much-needed liquidity amid regulatory and macro market constraints

Broadening horizons

Avinash Parmar, senior product manager at Pirum Systems, discusses his first year with the service provider and the recent launch of its corporate action service CoacsConnect

C3 on CSDR: compliance, controls and expertise you can count on: activate, validate, allocate

C3 Post Trade quantifies the scale of the challenge posed by CSDR’s SDR and offers advice on how to prepare for strict settlement oversight

ISLA Post Trade panel strikes optimistic tone for 2021

The discussion, held remotely, touched on promising new markets, post-pandemic recoveries, ESG and the role securities lending is playing in both novel and legacy asset manager portfolios

Lender focused from the start

Twenty plus years into their business, the eSecLending team sat down with SFT to discuss how the market’s only specialist agent lender is still going strong all these years later by keeping to its core business. And, we find out how their segregated programme model is increasingly attractive to sophisticated beneficial owners in the current market environment

May you live in interesting times

A pandemic upended the world. Industry experts predict what the New Normal will mean for securities finance revenues

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