Industry specialists reflect on challenges confronting buy-side firms in accessing repo markets, particularly under conditions of market stress, and what we can learn from recent experience. Carmella Haswell reports
EquiLend’s Nancy Allen and Paul Lynch speak to Bob Currie about the launch of the company’s Data and Analytics division and opportunities this will create to apply data-driven intelligence to access liquidity and optimise return from securities financing transactions
Clients that elected to remain active lenders throughout 2021 have performed well, as have many beneficial owners and agents. But what does the coming year have in store for the securities lending market? Will 2022 see a continuation of the recent volatility and regulatory trends? And what else can we expect? BNP Paribas Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Services shares its view on the current outlook for global securities lending markets
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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