All Special Report articles – Page 75
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Special Report - Securities Services: In transition
The transition management industry has had its knuckles rapped by regulators over recent months. But as Emma Cusworth reports, clients have an obligation to understand the service thoroughly, too
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Special Report - Securities Services: Without a TRACE
Lorraine White urges governments and pension funds to adopt the OECD’s Tax Relief and Compliance Enhancement system (TRACE), in order to introduce a more efficient relief-at-source model to international withholding tax
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Special Report - Securities Services: Strained relations
A wave of regulation is putting pressure on custodians’ resources across the board – including client relations. Iain Morse notes that R&M’s latest annual Global Custody survey found an unprecedented decline in client satisfaction, with the burden of meeting regulatory requirements seen as the main reason
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Special Report - Securities Services: Reporting progress
While most counterparties have managed to submit their OTC trades to authorised repositories under new reporting rules, Susan Hinko and David White note that it remains unclear who has traded with whom
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Special Report - Securities Services: The optimisation opportunity
Collateral optimisation presents an opportunity for the buy-side to take advantage of the collateral shortfall, says Matthieu Baudoin
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Special Report - Securities Services: Minority report
As deadlines for mandatory reporting of OTC derivative trades under EU rules pass, Daniel Ben-Ami finds a fair amount of confusion and evidence of non-compliance
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Special Report - Securities Services: In time, every time
Ido de Geus outlines what pension funds and their service providers need to do to ensure they are ready for the collateral-hungry regulatory environment that awaits them in a few months’ time
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Special Report - Securities Services: Margin of error
It’s tough making an honest euro in custody banking. Users of these services might be forgiven for thinking that wherever banks can bury sharp practices in obscure parts of their businesses, they will – and the findings of the UK finance regulator’s recent investigation into transition management won’t put their minds at rest.
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Special Report - Securities Services: The custodian cornerstone
As the UK continues its discussion of ‘Dutch-style’ collective DC schemes, Carl Giannotta examines changes in the securities services landscape in the Netherlands and how custodians can support such collective schemes across both sides of the North Sea
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Special Report - Securities Services: Collateral transformations
Is the securities services industry betting on a new set of complex solutions to a collateral management problem that might never materialise? Brian Bollen investigates
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The Top 1000 - Who counts what?
Fennell Betson outlines why so many of the estimates for European pension assets produce different figures
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Top 1000 - Stop pigeon-holing DC
Amin Rajan and Steven Hinds describe a new project that aims to create a typology of defined contribution plans.
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Top 1000: Back to work
The new Parliament and Commission will set a new agenda in Brussels. But there is plenty of work to do on proposals of various kinds that affect pension funds. Compiled by Gail Moss
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Top 1000: Austria - The fight against inertia
Every Austrian born after 1955 who has accrued pension benefits in the state pension system now has a new account, the Pensionskonto. And for the first time, each citizen has also received a letter in which they are informed about their pension benefits from the first pillar pay-as-you-go scheme.
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Top 1000: Belgium - Plenty more to do
The new government has received a raft of recommendations to fix the disparities in the country’s pension system. Is it too little too late?
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Top 1000: Denmark - Ahead on Solvency II
The regulator and pensions association have been working on a standard solvency model that guarantees equal protection for policyholders. Many elements of Solvency II are in place.
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Top 1000: Finland - A focus on solvency and governance
Implementation of Solvency II continues apace. Wide-ranging reforms will raise the retirement age and there has been a focus on transparency following a governance scandal.
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Top 1000: France - Growth for PERCO
Supplementary PERCO plans have seen strong growth but funded pension schemes are still concerned about Solvency II.
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Top 1000: Germany - Issues with AIFMD implementation
New regulations implementing the AIFM Directive might limit the use of certain alternative investment vehicles.
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Top 1000: Iceland - Countdown to the end of capital controls?
Despite their considerable overseas asset holdings, Iceland’s pension funds remain heavily invested in a domestic market showing signs of overheating.
