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Trading live on State Street’s P2P repo platform

State Street’s Travis Keltner tells Bob Currie that this P2P service allows buy-side firms to access new pools of liquidity, while targeting STP flows throughout the trade lifecycle from electronic transaction negotiation to collateral management

Seeking a sustainable future

Sunil Daswani, Standard Chartered Bank’s global head of securities lending, speaks to Carmella Haswell about the importance of ESG, how to reach a sustainable future and what’s driving demand and supply within the securities lending market

GLMX: meeting the unique needs of money markets

GLMX chief executive Glenn Havlicek explains that when new technology provides a better, cost-effective way to execute critical activities, its adoption is assured

KDPW Trade Repository: Why you should join us

Slawomir Zajac, director of the KDPW Trade Repository (TR) and board member of ANNA, speaks to SFT about why small is often beautiful in the TR space, bringing surety, technical innovation and a strong commitment to global standards

The changing of tides

UnaVista brought about a big change in the way it operates with the closing of its SFTR repository service. The July announcement allows clients six months to migrate to another platform before the new SFTR reporting rules come into effect

The Rapidly Evolving Trade Reporting Landscape

Securities Finance Times spoke with Val Wotton, DTCC’s managing director, product development and strategy of repository and derivatives services, to learn more about how DTCC helps firms with trade reporting obligations, especially as many firms are now in need of a new trade repository for SFTR reporting

A lending hand

Rising from the ashes of the credit crunch, peer-to-peer securities lending has opened doors for investors and borrowers, seemingly providing an attractive alternative to traditional lending mechanisms. Built for the new age, could this be the way forward for securities lending and repo markets?

Fresh pair of eyes

A year after go-live, SFTR’s successes and failures have been scrutinised in a Pirum and IHS Markit survey — IHS Markit’s executive director for SFTR Fabien Romero and Que-Phuong Dufournet-Tran, director for trading services and analytics and regulatory affairs, spoke to SFT about the lessons learned, what work still needs to be done and why SFTR is a model for future regulations

The new space race

With investment in SPACs skyrocketing over the past year, the FCA has published new listing rules to open up the UK market to SPACs and protect investors. But is it enough? Carmella Haswell reports

A year into SFTR: the devil remains in the detail

As we reach the first anniversary of implementation of the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) for the first cohort of firms, it seems an appropriate time to ask ourselves what we have learnt. Jonathan Lee, senior regulatory reporting expert at Kaizen Reporting, shares his assessment

Big things have small beginnings

Beneficial owner-run, peer-to-peer securities lending network GPFA has weathered the pandemic and come out the other side to celebrate its one-year anniversary. Rob Goobie, GPFA chair and AVP, collateral management, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) looks back on the Association’s successes and where it’s headed as the world returns to normal

Frictionless trade: collateral just the beginning

Guido Stroemer at HQLA^X sets out how the firm’s collateral mobility-boosting distributed ledger technology lays the groundwork for its long-term vision to transition towards a frictionless model of asset transfers

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