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Congresswoman Maxine Waters: “Predatory short selling of pension funds must stop”

29 January 2021 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The chair of the House Committee on Financial Services is launching a campaign to stop “private funds preying on the pension funds of hard-working Americans” in the wake of the GameStop short squeeze

EU accepts US CCP regulatory equivalency

27 January 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Allison Herren Lee, acting chair of the SEC, says: “The EC’s decision is an important first step on the road to providing greater regulatory certainty for CCPs and their members on both sides of the Atlantic"

LIBOR transition: 85% of uncleared UK derivatives market ready

27 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The FCA’s Edwin Schooling Latter says the success of this protocol means “a major reduction in risk faced by the 12,000 plus firms who have already signed, and for the system as a whole”

BCBS proposes changes to SFT haircuts

27 January 2021 Switzerland
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Basel committee has proposed technical amendments to the calculation of minimum haircut floors for securities financing transactions to avoid common misunderstandings

Capco addresses main challenges for EMIR Refit

25 January 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

“Already concerns have been raised around how these can be adopted and whether they should be the solution for EMIR standardisation,” explains Capco’s Stephen McPherson

MM Warburg settles cum-ex tax bill; seeks to recoup from Deutsche Bank and others

25 January 2021 Germany
Reporter: Drew Nicol

As of December, the German private bank has paid €155 million to tax authorities but is putting its former service providers on notice that it does not plan to eat the loses alone

UK court rejects argument that Brexit makes European Arrest Warrants void

21 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

A Rahman Ravelli legal team attempted to apply a habeas corpus defence to their client who is facing charges of cum-ex tax fraud in Germany, but argument was ruled invalid

Denmark’s largest public pension fund joins SimCorp SFTR platform

19 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

ATP joins buy side clients using SimCorp’s cloud-based SFTR solution, including PGGM and Ampega

Can Brexit save UK traders from facing EU cum-ex charges?

19 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

A London trader facing charges of cum-ex tax fraud in Germany is awaiting a ruling on whether the conclusion of the Brexit means the European arrest warrant against him no longer has any power to extradite him

EC approves LSEG acquisition of Refinitiv

13 January 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The commission’s conditional approval of LSEG’s acquisition of Refinitiv also makes Euronext’s successful purchase of Borsa Italiana from LSEG much more likely

Trump tackles covert Chinese military funding, causes securities lending confusion

13 January 2021 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

OCC and other US market infrastructures spent last week scrambling to decipher how president Donald Trump's executive order aimed at cutting-off funding to the Chinese army via trading in the US would affect the securities lending market

Final phase of SFTR goes live

11 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The final phase of the EU’s SFTR is now live, bringing in non-financial counterparties, while also widening UK-EU regulatory divergence post Brexit

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