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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

Entering a new era

ISLA’s CEO Andrew Dyson and first female chair Ina Budh-Raja speak with Carmella Haswell on the Association's three-year strategy as the industry undergoes an unprecedented period of transformative change

The FinOptSys journey: not all fintechs are created equal

Divyesh Bhakta, founder and CEO of FinOptSys, reveals the firm’s road to innovation through key partnerships, product offerings and combating challenges to build the core pieces of its platform

Toning up in the collateral gym

In the first of two articles on collateral management strategy, Bob Currie examines advances in collateral optimisation and electronic negotiation of collateral schedules

Broadening the market

Paul Solway, communications officer at PASLA and BNY Mellon’s head of securities finance for Asia, speaks to Carmella Haswell about the opportunities presented across the APAC market, PASLA’s focus for 2023 and how Q1 is shaping up for the industry

The art of the possible

While not providing a silver bullet, the application of technology to specific pain points offers potential for major efficiency gains in securities finance. Carmella Haswell reports

Preserving calm at year end

Published each January, the ICMA European Repo and Collateral Committee year-end report examines how end-of-year conditions have impacted leading repo markets. Bob Currie analyses its latest release

Cleared repo feels boost of monetary normalisation tailwind

Bob Currie speaks to Eurex Repo’s Frank Gast, Carsten Hiller and Jonathan Lombardo about the rediscovery of GC Pooling as a liquidity management solution, steps to attract buy-side customers to cleared repo and the organisation’s strategic focus for 2023 and beyond

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