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ESG’s impact on global equity lending market dynamics

Firms that perform poorly on material ESG characteristics have lower levels of institutional ownership, increased levels of shorting, and higher levels of institutional investor engagement, according to research by State Street Associates. Travis Whitmore, head of securities finance research, and Christian Nadeau, quantitative researcher at State Street Associates, discuss the findings

How can securities lending do well and do good?

Madeleine Senior, managing director, regional head of financing and securities services, Europe and Americas at Standard Chartered Bank, discusses the importance of embedding ESG into investment decision-making and the role of agency securities lending in ESG programmes

ESMA postpones buy-in regime to 2025

After a much anticipated announcement by the European Securities and Markets Authority, industry participants reflect on a three-year delay to the implementation of the CSDR mandatory buy-in regime. Carmella Haswell reports

Managing a new settlement regime

Broadridge’s Paul Clark, head of international post-trade pre-sales, breaks down the Central Securities Depository Regulation and discusses key focus areas for market participants

ESG principles in securities lending – the essential role of data

As concerns around sustainable finance increasingly interact with securities lending businesses, the role of high-quality, highly available ESG data takes on new importance for market participants, in particular CSDs. Jacob Gertel, senior content manager, legal and compliance data at SIX, evaluates ESG impacts on the securities lending process and how data providers can provide the answers

CSDR: let’s get digital

Ted Allen, director of business development, securities finance and collateral at FIS, discusses why moving to a DLT and smart contract future is a better fix for settlement risk

Under pressure

Carmella Haswell speaks to Ernst Dolce, head of liquidity solutions at AXA Investment Managers, on the mounting pressures facing markets and the firm’s top priorities

ECB Opinion Paper recommends dropping CSDR mandatory buy-ins

Bob Currie gauges industry reaction to recent dialogue on CSDR settlement discipline and assesses how well market participants have adapted to the cash penalties regime

Solve for the SEC’s new 13f-2 reporting risk with one-click connectivity

S3’s new tool offers one-click compliance and connectivity for proposed daily and monthly short selling reporting requirements

Rising interest rates: new hurdle or considerable opportunity?

While collateral optimisation has always helped to minimise funding and liquidity costs, the new rate environment is creating even greater urgency for optimisation to drive P&L benefits, says Todd Hodgin, global head of product development at Transcend

The new era of data

Equating more data with more value is a notion that should be relegated to the past. S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Melissa Gow describes how the insight that solutions-based capabilities can offer is ushering in the new era of data

Bypassing the big bang

Ed Tyndale-Biscoe, head of secured funding product and business development at Ion Group, explains the intelligent way to break free from legacy technology

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