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Eye on Asia

Zubair Nizami, head of Asian securities lending trading at Brown Brothers Harriman talks to Drew Nicol about the state of the industry in the region

India

Being an exciting emerging market is all well and good, but how long can that status really apply before interest wanes? India is doing its best not to find out

Australia

Hugh Leonard, director of repo sales at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, explains how the Australian market has excelled in recent years

Australia

Securities lending is in a strong place in Australia. Dane Fannin, head of capital markets in the Asia Pacific at Northern Trust, explains the available opportunities

Mexico

Federico Ortega Gilly of Mexico’s Nacional Financiera explains why his country’s securities lending market is ripe for foreign investment

Russia’s National Settlement Depository has had a busy year making its securities finance market more robust and attractive to outside investors. The CSD’s Alina Akchurina explains the innovations being implemented

South Africa

South Africa’s securities lending industry is on the verge of embracing a modern T+3 settlement cycle that could boost the country’s market

Canada

Experts on Canada’s securities lending industry discuss the market’s qualities compared to others, finding it to be a strong source of HQLAs

Asia

A difficult end to 2015 has not deterred securities borrowers and lenders in Asia, where certain markets enjoyed significant growth and offered new opportunities

France

France’s institutional investors establishing discretionary securities lending programmes are benefitting from increased levels of control and flexibility

Brazil

Brazil is Latin America’s biggest market, but some agent lenders are still seeing its central counterparty model as a barrier to further growth

Greece

As Greek and EU ministers continue to debate the country’s third bailout, financial market participants are reacting to the uncertainty, including short sellers

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