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First trades executed on DCP blockchain initiative

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

The securities lending market in 2021: a fine balance between optimism and uncertainty

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

GameStop: Now the dust has settled, what comes next?

An SEC investigation, hearings in Congress, murmurs of new regulations and Wall Street rattled; not bad for a Roaring Kitty

SFTR to SFDR: The new, new regulatory frontier

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

Beyond the pandemic for repo markets in 2021

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: A new era begins

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

Global Funding & Financing Summit 2021

Deutsche Boerse’s first virtual GFF Summit brought together securities finance professionals to discuss the state of the market in 2021

The sleeping giant stirs

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

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail

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

Cum-ex in 2021

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

Red flags for securities lending and ESG?

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

Trading and technology

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

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