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Taking stress out of mid-life events

The optimal way to manage mid-life trade maintenance is to transact on a centralised electronic trading platform that standardises traditional and complex trade structures and streamlines manual, risk-prone event workflows, says Sal Giglio, chief operating officer, GLMX

CCP Margin Exchange

Russell Pudney, executive director for platform sales, securities services at J.P. Morgan, outlines the bank’s new product offering, a hybrid triparty solution for delivering efficient mobilisation of CCP margin

Securities finance: a holistic approach to optimising your portfolio and alpha generation

Upgrading to a centralised data platform that provides real-time views can empower investors to leverage their assets and seize new opportunities to boost portfolio returns, says Northern Trust's Judson Baker and Mark Jones

Focus on transformation

Ben Challice, global head of trading services at J.P. Morgan, which comprises their collateral management and agency financing business, speaks to Bob Currie about how investments in their technology stack and a convergence of client service needs is driving evolution of the securities finance product set

UK SFTR validation rule revisions will not crack the data quality conundrum

Jonathan Lee, senior regulatory reporting specialist at Kaizen, examines the introduction of new SFTR validation rules in the UK, indicating that this is the time for firms to reassess their control environments, ensure that all in-scope transactions are reported and to consider implementing quality assurance

Unlocking global markets

Stephan Wolf, CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, speaks to Carmella Haswell on the trials and tribulations of its universal project to onboard validation agents in preparing securities finance markets for upcoming LEI legislation

Fixing the broken rung

In the second of two articles, Carmella Haswell speaks to women in securities finance and lending to discuss the barriers facing women of colour, historic moments in the industry and how the sector can advance in the fight for diversity and inclusion

Tax authorities step up efforts to recover cum-ex losses

Bob Currie provides a comparative update on the efforts of national authorities to eliminate dividend tax reclamation fraud and to seek recovery of funds lost through cum-ex and cum-cum trading

Moving the needle

Carmella Haswell discusses the current priorities facing women in securities finance and lending, from the rise of women’s networking events to avoiding the box-ticking trap. In the first of two articles, industry veterans reflect on their biggest accomplishments and their first steps into the world of finance

Securities lending and the question of pricing

Martin Walker, Broadridge’s head of product, securities finance and collateral management, looks at securities lending price models in the context of SEC proposed rule 10c-1, reflecting on how this will impact market operations and data vendors’ business models

Applying technology to legal data

Akber Datoo, CEO of D2 Legal Technology, talks to SFT about the complexity of managing legal data and outlines solutions that can help clients to manage counterparty-type and netting determinations

Leverage ratio and the new normal

With the CRR2 Leverage Ratio requirements now live, Frank Odendall, head of securities financing product and business development at Eurex, weighs up whether the European repo market will trend towards a new orthodoxy

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