All features

Reverting back to the 70s

Presenting to the CASLA annual conference, Benjamin Tal, managing director and deputy chief economist at CIBC, provides a Canadian perspective on macro drivers that will shape the direction of the economy and financial markets. Carmella Haswell reports

Empty voting: back in the spotlight?

Recent action of an EU-based bank in borrowing stock to vote at a company AGM prompted criticism from industry working groups. Bob Currie examines the fallout from this widely-publicised case

Buy-side firms reassess how they access market liquidity

Buy-side firms are relying on agent lenders to explore different means of accessing market liquidity as the securities lending discipline evolves. Carmella Haswell reports

Emerging markets: unlocking dead capital and new liquidity

The industry maps out routes of opportunity in emerging markets while discussing the pain points of establishing lending and financing activities in the Middle East and Africa regions. Carmella Haswell reports

Low ranking ESG companies facing restricted lending

Institutional owners are restricting lending of companies perceived as unsustainable, according to State Street’s Travis Whitmore. Carmella Haswell reports

Global banks trial interbank platform for intraday repo and FX swaps

Finteum’s co-founder Brian Nolan speaks to Bob Currie about the development of the London fintech’s DLT-based platform and countdown to its proposed launch in mid-2023

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

Behind the technology curve

A drive in transformation and innovation is required to get ahead of the technology curve, where the securities finance sector is seemingly lagging behind. With a greater focus on tokensiation and native digital assets, pressure mounds on the sector to tackle data and automation issues. Carmella Haswell reports

The entry of pension funds into Eurex’s cleared repo markets creates a win-win situation

As the temporary central clearing exemption granted by the European Commission expires, Frank Odendall, Eurex’s head of securities financing, product and business development, finds that pension funds are voluntarily looking to CCP clearing for both mandatory and non-mandatory products, including repo

Is the bilateral repo market working for the buy side?

Christopher Page, VP for product and business development at Eurex, explains that the benefits of CCP-cleared repo far outweigh the costs, delivering greater capital efficiency and significant operational and legal simplification over bilateral channels

Accelerating into a digital future

GLMX’s chief product officer Andy Wiblin observes that securities financing markets are entering a new phase of electronification, enabling complex flows that were previously locally optimised in spreadsheets now to be digitised

Robinhood confirms release of “fully paid” securities lending service

California-based trading platform announces the roll out of a lending service that will be available to “all customers” by the end of May, while Q1 transaction-based revenues contract 48 per cent YoY. SFT reports

Get in touch

Home

Facebook

RSS feed

News

Industry

Technology

People moves

Regulation

Buy side

Repo

Derivatives

Magazine