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SWIAT appoints Miederer as COO
02 April 2025 Germany
Reporter: Carmella Haswell
With more than 20 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry, Felix Miederer will play an important role in the strategic development of SWIAT
Industry
GLEIF enlists Finema as qualified vLEI issuer
02 April 2025 Thailand
Reporter: Carmella Haswell
As the first Southeast Asia-based QVI, the firm will help companies with a verifiable organisational digital identity that is designed to create trust with financial institutions
Regulation
RBA and ASIC act on concerns with ASX
01 April 2025 Australia
Reporter: Daniel Tison
Following the CHESS batch settlement failure incident from 20 December, Australia’s regulator and central bank have expressed concerns over operational risk management
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ECB trials in review: The French perspective
In the second instalment of this two-part series, Daniel Tison invites Banque de France and BNP Paribas to join the discussion on the recently completed ECB DLT trials and experiments
Navigating growth amid emerging opportunities
As APAC’s securities finance landscape continues to evolve, market participants face a dynamic environment characterised by regulatory shifts, technological change, and emerging opportunities, says State Street’s Richard Gallagher
South Korea’s short selling comeback
With the anticipated return of short selling to South Korea, Daniel Tison sits down with industry experts to discuss if the green light will result in traffic
From Africa to Asia: An update on the market
After attending headline conferences held by the South African Securities Lending Association, and the Pan Asia Securities Lending Association, Carmella Haswell breaks down the key findings and lessons learnt from participant discussions
IMN: Opportunity, challenge, priority
In its 30th year, attendees of IMN’s Beneficial Owners’ conference explored the unravelling political scene, key emerging markets, and regulatory initiatives impacting the industry globally. Carmella Haswell reports
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ISLA Americas
Fran Garritt
Fran Garritt, CEO of ISLA Americas, sits down with Justin Lawson to discuss the upcoming US Treasury clearing mandate from an agent lender cash desk perspective, and addresses a critical need to raise awareness of the new rules for in-scope firms
Arcesium
Himanshu Bagr and Ashley Bell
Arcesium’s Himanshu Bagri, product lead, Treasury Suite, and Ashley Bell, vice president, Financial Operations, look at the importance of timely margin calculations when managing risk
Japan Securities Finance
Kenta Yamamoto and Kohei Takeda
With the end of the Bank of Japan’s monetary easing policy, the Japanese market is moving towards normalisation and garnering attention from global investors, says Japan Securities Finance’s Kohei Takeda and Kenta Yamamoto
Broadridge
Paul Chiappetta
Paul Chiappetta, managing director, Digital Innovation, Capital Markets, Broadridge, looks at how distributed ledger technology is bringing efficiency and cost-savings to repo transactions
Japan Securities Finance
Kei Hashimoto
Following the introduction of margin transactions, Kei Hashimoto of the margin loan department at Japan Securities Finance provides an update and user guide of the Japanese stock trading method
BNY
Brian Ruane
Brian Ruane, senior executive vice president, head of Global Clearing, Credit Services and Corporate Trust of BNY, sits down with Justin Lawson to discuss BNY’s Global Clearing business
PASLA
Stephen Howard
Stephen Howard, CEO of PASLA, sits down with Carmella Haswell to discuss how the association is shaping its membership for the future, looking back at three decades of serving APAC markets, and the upcoming conference
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News and people moves roundupFostering the competitiveness of Spanish capital markets
Following the region’s 15-year push to create a framework for securities lending by collective investment schemes, market participants discuss the current developments in Spain’s capital markets and the prospect for change.Part two: ECB trials in review
In the second instalment of this two-part series, Daniel Tison invites Banque de France and BNP Paribas to join the discussion on the recently completed ECB DLT trials and experiments.South Korea’s short selling comeback
With the anticipated return of short selling to South Korea, Daniel Tison sits down with industry experts to discuss if the green light will result in traffic.
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