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Global Securities Finance News and Commentary

Securities finance news and commentary

Industry

Euronext joins ISLA

03 April 2025 France
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Headquartered in Paris, Euronext is a pan-European market infrastructure group which provides services including issuance, ETFs, and post-trade

Industry

SmartStream and Finastra partner

03 April 2025 UK
Reporter: Jack McRae

The partnership sees SmartStream’s TLM Collateral Management solution extend across Finastra’s Kondor and Opics treasury management solutions

Industry

BrokerTec reports 23% YoY growth in US repo ADNV for March

03 April 2025 US, Europe
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Q1 2025 was BrokerTec’s highest overall volume quarter on record, with US$913 billion average daily notional value transacted, up 22 per cent year-on-year

Industry

National Bank of Canada goes live on Trading Apps’ TA.Link

03 April 2025 Canada
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Industry

ISLA Americas welcomes Barclays and DTCC

03 April 2025 US
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Industry

Canton Network and Flowdesk partner on new solution

03 April 2025 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Flowdesk will help the Network in its development of an on-chain collateral and margin management solution for bilateral derivatives

Industry

DTCC to release new tokenised real-time collateral platform

02 April 2025 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The post-trade market infrastructure will demo the new platform in a live event — ‘The Great Collateral Experiment’ — on 23 April

Industry

Global PSSL establishes Investment Advisors Council

02 April 2025 UK
Reporter: Daniel Tison

The IAC comprises Financial Decisions as the chairing organisation and Horizon Financial Holdings Corporation as co-founder

Industry

Securities lending revenue up 3% YoY for March

02 April 2025 Global
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Q1 generated US$2,892 million in global securities lending revenues, representing a 5 per cent increase year-on-year, S&P Global Market Intelligence reports

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Features

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

The rise of securities finance e-trading in Asia

Following several years of small steps, Asia has recently experienced explosive growth in the adoption of electronic trading for repo, writes James Davis, head of APAC at GLMX

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

ECB trials in review: Perspectives from the DACH region

In the first of two articles, Daniel Tison invites Clearstream, DekaBank, and the ValueExchange to share their key findings and future visions, following the completion of the ECB DLT trials and experiments

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

Retail securities lending: New players in the game

With insights from retail brokers, fintech firms, and an industry association, Daniel Tison explores the potential of retail to supercharge the securities lending space

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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Podcasts

Acadia Ahead of the Curve

Word on the (Clear) Street

eSecLending Insights

Making Sense

Interviews

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

SASLA members

Remaining attractive for institutional clients and offshore markets

South African Securities Lending Association members review the market and discuss the complexity of the region’s collateral management landscape, as well as the potential introduction of reporting requirements for securities financing transactions

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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Magazine

News and people moves roundup

Fostering 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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