The International Securities Lending Association is pushing to extend its Global Master Securities Lending Agreement to crypto assets, with a team from Ashurst advising.
Sustainable investing groups have praised the EU’s draft Sustainability Reporting Standards, whose consultation period closed this week, but banking groups have called for a delay in implementation.
New EU rules integrating ESG into MiFID II requirements have come into force, despite warnings from industry that the data needed for effective compliance is still not available.
A bipartisan group from the US senate agriculture committee has proposed granting the Commodity Futures Trading Commission oversight over Bitcoin, Ether and other cryptos defined as digital commodities.
The Bank for International Settlements and the International Organization of Securities Commissions are looking into central counterparty (CCP) practices to address non-default losses, saying the sophistication of their approaches “varies significantly”.
Industry bodies have complained the Financial Action Task Force’s plans to tighten rules around beneficial ownership of trusts are too “truncated” to properly tackle the matter.
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