Don D’Eramo, head of securities finance at RBC Investor & Treasury Services, offers an overview of why a securities lending programme can offer low-risk returns and support capital market liquidity
Rob Verrillo, CEO of ConneXXion Markets, updates SFT on where the electronic repo platform fits into the modern financing landscape to provide much-needed liquidity amid regulatory and macro market constraints
Avinash Parmar, senior product manager at Pirum Systems, discusses his first year with the service provider and the recent launch of its corporate action service CoacsConnect
The discussion, held remotely, touched on promising new markets, post-pandemic recoveries, ESG and the role securities lending is playing in both novel and legacy asset manager portfolios
Twenty plus years into their business, the eSecLending team sat down with SFT to discuss how the market’s only specialist agent lender is still going strong all these years later by keeping to its core business. And, we find out how their segregated programme model is increasingly attractive to sophisticated beneficial owners in the current market environment
DekaBank, Hauck & Aufhäuser and DekaInvest settled €300 million worth of securities lending versus collateral trades on the Digital Collateral Protocol, a DLT-based protocol implemented by Comyno via its C-One securities finance platform. Digital Assets will be next in line
Andrew Geggus, global head of agency lending trading at BNP Paribas, offers an outlook for 2021 which strikes a fine balance between uncertainty and optimism