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Evolving perspectives

APAC markets are shifting to put collateral management at the forefront. Purtini Joshi, head of Collateral+ Asia Pacific business development at State Street, evaluates the evolving collateral space and how digital assets are adding new dimensions to the investment cycle

A tokenised collateral network

With little fanfare but significant long-term impact, J.P. Morgan’s Paul Pirie and Bhavna Haswani discuss the recently completed landmark transaction, moving a tokenised money market fund onto a blockchain. Leveraging this initial transaction, J.P. Morgan is exploring how to expand this offering in the coming months

Be prepared

Brian Bollen talks to industry participants about the potential impact of the SEC’s Rule 10c-1 and why opinions on its effectiveness continue to differ

ESG considerations and securities lending

By combining global equities lending, ESG and proxy vote data from 2015 to 2021, State Street has evaluated the impact of ESG on loan supply, short-selling demand and institutional investor engagement. Travis Whitmore, senior quantitative researcher at research think tank State Street Associates, explains this research

Solving for today, building for tomorrow

In the second of a series of articles on collateral management strategy, Bob Currie examines steps to address collateral fragmentation, potential benefits from tokenisation and the essential need to be working with good data

Rediscovering trade opportunities

Katsuhiko Yamamoto, general manager of margin loan at Japan Securities Finance, breaks down how firms can use margin transactions for short selling activity, enabling them to short Japanese shares at a reasonable price

A bridge between markets

Digital Prime Technologies’ head of lending solutions Courtney Campbell speaks to Carmella Haswell about spearheading the firm’s new digital asset lending platform, Tokenet, and how it plans to reshape the institutional digital lending market

The need for automation in legal opinion

Legal opinions are a fundamental component of global financial stability. They underpin regulatory acceptance of close-out netting, which reduces financial institutions’ capital costs, risk and legal uncertainty, and are key for financial stability. Yet their current format is unwieldy, overly complex and increasingly no longer fit for purpose, as Akber Datoo, CEO of D2 Legal Technology, explains