Contributor: Alfred Sanders
Corporate finance organizations are facing unparalleled pressure to improve operations. To be competitive, they’re looking to better manage the financial supply chain, integrate and standardize processes, achieve a return on technology investments, and manage risk while improving margins and reducing costs. ... read more
Contributor: David Lewis
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has now ruled as of May 10, 2012, on the tax discrimination alleged by nine institutions over withholding tax levied on foreign investors in French equities compared with domestic funds which are exempt. Withholding tax is levied at up to 25% on dividends paid out to investors by equity issuers, but where investors from different countries are not taxed at the same level, it is considered to be contrary to the Free Movement of Capital across the European Union. ... read more
Contributor: Magnus Almqvist
The overarching objective of increasing market resilience and stability during periods of turmoil is shared by most, if not all, market actors. But that is where the agreements seem to end. How to achieve this, and how successful the regulators can hope to be is something that could be debated and discussed endlessly. We certainly had a good go at it during a recent panel discussion at SunGard’s London Industry Seminar, and I made the following observations from the event.... read more
Contributor: Jane Milner
Over the past few decades, we’ve seen the global securities finance industry grow and evolve in many ways. When I started out in this business it was relatively small, and at the time we were seeing a dramatic expansion of the securities lending market. It always was, and still is, very much a people business,read more... read more
Contributor: Alfred Sanders
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) standards requirement contained in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act has been largely overlooked in light of other priorities contained in the law. Yet, it is potentially a change that will require a significant amount of system and data changes for the industry. LEIs are a new concept that would provide industry regulators with additional transparency and risk management of exposure by being able to match open positions of individual legal entities across multiple market participants.... read more
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