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Conducting the great transition

Regulators need to grasp the nettle and provide transparency for firms, as specificity becomes vital in improving data quality, according to MarketAxess' head of post-trade Chris Smith. He speaks to Carmella Haswell on the firm’s RRH migration, current trends and next steps

UCITS funds turn their attention to securities lending

UCITS funds have historically shunned securities lending due to regulatory restrictions, but this is changing. Joanna Ksenzova, associate director of securities finance at RBC Investor & Treasury Services in Luxembourg, shares her insights on three industry developments which are transforming how UCITS funds approach securities lending

Rethinking the economics of indemnification

Securities lending indemnification is mispriced, subsidised by the agent providers and not all it’s cracked up to be as a risk mitigant, according to Credit Benchmark’s co-founder Mark Faulkner. He talks to Bob Currie about how to reset the economics of the agency lending market

The new era of data

Equating more data with more value is a notion that should be relegated to the past. S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Melissa Gow describes how the insight that solutions-based capabilities can offer is ushering in the new era of data

The making of CreateiQ

Linklaters’ Hannah Patterson Smith and Deepak Sitlani speak to Bob Currie about the development of the law firm’s data-first contract automation platform and the benefits this can deliver to the securities finance community

The regulatory push

Market participants discuss the potential for ESG regulatory governance for the securities lending product, following preliminary moves by the Financial Conduct Authority to improve trust and integrity in services sold as sustainable. Carmella Haswell reports

Distributed ledger technology: new designs for securities finance

DLT-based innovation is reshaping securities finance architecture and attracting new providers and consumers of collateral into the market. Bob Currie examines the development pipeline

Reverting back to the 70s

Presenting to the CASLA annual conference, Benjamin Tal, managing director and deputy chief economist at CIBC, provides a Canadian perspective on macro drivers that will shape the direction of the economy and financial markets. Carmella Haswell reports