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Collateral management as an efficiency enabler

At a time when global financial institutions are dealing with extensive cost pressures and wide-reaching regulations, the need for efficient collateral management solutions has never been greater, says Nerin Demir, head of repo and collateral management at SIX

Reducing the cost of capital through workflow automation

Acadia’s chief operating officer Scott Fitzpatrick says a continued focus on automation is required to mitigate the growing funding, liquidity and capital costs of posting collateral and represents a “game changer” for derivatives

Initial Margin: is it over?

The quest for efficiency and optimisation does not stop with the final UMR implementation phase, according to BNP Paribas’ David Beatrix. For firms with a compliance process in place, careful monitoring is necessary to ensure everything is running properly. For firms that have not yet been impacted, they could be in the future

What 12 months of market volatility means for securities finance

It has been another unprecedented year, and markets are still adjusting to what the current macroeconomic climate means for trading and investment. There has been increased market volatility as a result, but this can also create opportunity, according to Curtis Dutton, global head of trading for securities lending at HSBC

Do you want to be the only client without the internet?

Richard Glen, solutions architect at HQLA^X, identifies three steps that firms should follow to guide their digital strategies, suggesting that more firms should be embracing a ‘can do’ approach to distributed ledger technology

What do Web3 and the metaverse have to do with collateral management?

Collateral management and securities finance are not going full web3 just yet, but the train is gathering momentum explains Ted Allen, business development director for FIS Securities Finance and Collateral

Navigating the evolving settlement landscape

David Taylor, product manager for ION Markets' Secured Funding solutions, urges industry participants to innovate and future proof their technology, noting that firms that invest early in effective solutions will be well placed to take advantage of T+1 settlement