Experts in securities lending, repo, regulation and law were brought together to navigate the unique challenges of moving from a regulatory world based on rules to one based on principles
Jeff Kidwell, president of Kidwell Consulting, offers his expert verdict on the state of the US repo market in 2021 and offers advice on what might be done to alleviate some of the pain points
APAC securities lending market experts take on the region’s hot topics including the opening of China, a post-COVID recovery, short selling bans and ESG
China has amended its QFII scheme to allow foreign investors to lend and borrow securities directly in the mainland market. As the world’s second-largest securities market opens, SFT examines what it means for securities finance participants globally
Trading Apps reveals its goals for the year ahead and why the team is encouraging the market to say hello to potential. Laura Allen, Trading Apps managing director, explains all
2021 has already seen a flurry of activity by European prosecutors restarting their campaigns against individuals thought to have profited from cum-ex schemes after COVID-19 scuppered most legal action last year. SFT offers a guide to what will likely be a busy year for litigation
Roy Zimmerhansl, practice lead at Pierpoint Financial, revisits the news that DWS pulled one of its ETF’s securities lending programmes as part of its transition to tracking an ESG index and examines whether there are lessons to be learned or warning signposts as ESG continues to increase in importance
Fran Garritt, the RMA’s director of global markets risk and securities lending, interviews Charles Schwab’s Eric Lytle and OCC’s Matt Wolfe about how institutions can ease the adoption of new platforms and products and achieve a downward sloping cost curve for the securities lending industry
Collateral management in the derivatives space has been on a decade long journey that is nearly at its end with the final two phases on UMR on the horizon. AcadiaSoft’s head of community development Mark Demo, explores what happened and outlines what’s to come
The events of 2020 brought the risk of margin volatility into sharp relief. Ingvar Sigurjonsson Managing director, funding and collateral solutions team, State Street Global Markets reviews what happened and what can be done to mitigate future upheaval
Would securities finance and derivatives markets benefit from a consolidated master agreement? The International Swaps and Derivatives Association thinks so
