Empty Voting and Securities Lending
"Empty Voting" is when an investor uses borrowed shares to vote at an AGM or EGM. Mediobanca voted borrowed shares at a Generali AGM.
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- Nov 16, 2021
- 6 min
Securities Finance Technology Symposium - my observations
From the desk of John Arnesen, Consulting Lead, Pierpoint Financial On November 4th 2021, Securities Finance Times held its 5th annual...
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- Nov 15, 2021
- 1 min
REGIS-TR Podcast: ESG Securities Lending, Green Repo, Short Selling & Greenwashing
Timed to coincide with the closing of COP26, this show covers securities finance, ESG and related topics
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- Jun 29, 2021
- 5 min
Share prices don't care about short-sellers
several countries implemented a ban on short-selling, claiming it as a responsible move to maintain orderly markets. You know the story.
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- Jun 22, 2021
- 7 min
Securities Lending: Back to Business? Not so fast!
A big proportion of that work will affect securities finance with both obvious and less obvious topics on the SEC Agency Rule List.
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- May 25, 2021
- 7 min
Securities lending – transparency for the sake of it?
Roy Zimmerhansl challenges the value of pending regulatory initiatives focusing on increasing transparency in securities finance
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- May 4, 2021
- 6 min
Securities Lending – Hedge Funds reach records and Korea returns
From the desk of Roy Zimmerhansl, Practice Lead, Pierpoint Financial I am going to look at two linked issues that will affect the...
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- Apr 6, 2021
- 5 min
Securities finance can fix things that ain't broken more easily
What got me thinking was that regulation is never over.
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- Feb 2, 2021
- 3 min
Fix the Leverage Ratio, Revive Repo
Sir Paul Tucker, a previous Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, warned in the FT last month of a new financial crisis. He may be right.
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- Oct 13, 2020
- 6 min
Securities Lending: Reflections on the Digital Transformation panel
This week I am sharing my thoughts on digital transformation, inspired by the recent panel I moderated, courtesy of EquiLend.
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- Sep 16, 2020
- 1 min
Zimmerhansl appointed to Nigerian Stock Exchange Equities Product Advisory Committee
Pierpoint's Roy Zimmerhansl has been working with NSE to develop domestic securities lending activity and has been appointed to the Committe
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- Sep 15, 2020
- 6 min
Are Securities Lending Indemnifications worth the Money?
To determine whether securities lending indemnities are worth the money, you have to know the cost, so “How much?” is a great question.
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- Jul 28, 2020
- 6 min
Securities lending is not oversupplied
The improved application of existing and future technologies will restore the supply/demand imbalance that appears to exist today
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- May 19, 2020
- 6 min
Securities Lending: The blog ‘THEY’ didn’t want me to write
From the desk of Roy Zimmerhansl Practice Lead, Pierpoint Financial Consulting As readers of my last blog may recall, I did my first...
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- Apr 7, 2020
- 6 min
Short Selling Bans work – Discuss
Roy Zimmerhansl considers whether short selling bans are anything more than optics for regulators that implement them
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- Mar 17, 2020
- 1 min
European regulators enforce short-selling bans to stabilise markets
Improved liquidity and price discovery are important contributions from short sellers, but crucially, short selling acts as a counterbalance
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- Feb 4, 2020
- 8 min
Securities lending: Contributions to a well-functioning market.
Securities lending makes a positive contribution to well functioning markets in five different ways.
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Roy Zimmerhansl
- Nov 5, 2019
- 5 min
Are Investors that don’t engage in securities lending missing out?
“Why should I lend my securities?” – I’m trying to think back to the first time I heard someone ask that question.
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