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SEC Chair Speaks About the Treasury Markets and the Debt Ceiling Discussions

Reynolds Holding

5] After all we achieved to reform the swaps markets, Scott O’Malia—your CEO and a former fellow CFTC Commissioner—has asked me to return for yet another lively Chicago discussion, this time about our work in the $24 trillion Treasury markets. Treasuries are embedded in money market funds. Treasuries are embedded in money market funds.

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Looking Behind the Curtain: Corporate due diligence of political spending essential to protect companies from growing risks

Harvard Corporate Governance

Too often corporate leaders fail to fully assess and scrutinize the ultimate beneficiaries of political contributions from corporate treasury funds. Pull back the curtain & control the risk To mitigate these risks, corporate leaders can and should demand a full accounting from all recipients of how its corporate treasury funds are spent.

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The Coming Wave of “Natural Capital” and Biodiversity Shareholder Activism and Stewardship Pressure on Boards

Harvard Corporate Governance

As anticipated in our February 2021 memo , the terms “natural capital,” “biodiversity,” “nature loss,” “ecosystem restoration” and the like have increasingly entered the investor and corporate lexicon.

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The Philippines: New Samurai Bond Issue’s Political Backdrop

Global Finance

trillion pesos—around $264 billion in May—according to Bureau of the Treasury estimates. The country’s debt-to-GDP ratio is currently in excess of 60%, the Treasury says. billion) samurai bond offering by the Philippine government, data from the Treasury shows. Government debt has mushroomed in recent years, hitting 15.3

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Octopus Energy to repay £3bn of state support used to take over Bulb

The Guardian M&A

The reimbursement, part of the terms of the takeover, means the 2021 bailout cost the public almost nothing Business live – latest updates Octopus Energy is poised to repay the UK government almost £3bn to cover the state support it received to take over the collapsed energy supplier Bulb.

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Statement by Chair Gensler on Re-Proposed Amendments Regarding Exemption from National Securities Association Membership

Harvard Corporate Governance

treasury markets. 26-27) (“For example, of the estimated 66 broker-dealers that were exchange members but not FINRA members as of the end of 2021, 47 initiated orders in listed equities in September 2021 that were executed on or off an exchange. In 2015, the Commission proposed changes to Rule 15b9-1. 1 [link] (go back).

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EACT SURVEY 2021

Simply Treasury

Every year, EACT launches a treasury survey to identify top priorities for Corporates. Treasury top priorities. The 2021 EACT survey, as it has become a tradition, attempts early this year to determine what the treasury trends and priorities for multinational companies will be in the next 12 to 24 months.