The ability to interconnect trading platforms and to drive centralisation of trade input data, execution and post-trade management is a must, says Mike Norwood, director, global trading product owner, EquiLend
Artificial intelligence is gradually penetrating the securities lending industry, with firms attempting to replicate human intelligence in automating and applying predictive analytics to their lending processes. Carmella Haswell reports
The introduction of the ‘ISLA Clause Library & Taxonomy’ marks an important step in the securities lending market’s digitisation journey, explains Andrew Dyson, chief executive, International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) and Akber Datoo, CEO, D2 Legal Technology (D2LT)
State Street’s Travis Keltner tells Bob Currie that this P2P service allows buy-side firms to access new pools of liquidity, while targeting STP flows throughout the trade lifecycle from electronic transaction negotiation to collateral management
Sunil Daswani, Standard Chartered Bank’s global head of securities lending, speaks to Carmella Haswell about the importance of ESG, how to reach a sustainable future and what’s driving demand and supply within the securities lending market
GLMX chief executive Glenn Havlicek explains that when new technology provides a better, cost-effective way to execute critical activities, its adoption is assured
Slawomir Zajac, director of the KDPW Trade Repository (TR) and board member of ANNA, speaks to SFT about why small is often beautiful in the TR space, bringing surety, technical innovation and a strong commitment to global standards
UnaVista brought about a big change in the way it operates with the closing of its SFTR repository service. The July announcement allows clients six months to migrate to another platform before the new SFTR reporting rules come into effect
Securities Finance Times spoke with Val Wotton, DTCC’s managing director, product development and strategy of repository and derivatives services, to learn more about how DTCC helps firms with trade reporting obligations, especially as many firms are now in need of a new trade repository for SFTR reporting
Rising from the ashes of the credit crunch, peer-to-peer securities lending has opened doors for investors and borrowers, seemingly providing an attractive alternative to traditional lending mechanisms. Built for the new age, could this be the way forward for securities lending and repo markets?
A year after go-live, SFTR’s successes and failures have been scrutinised in a Pirum and IHS Markit survey — IHS Markit’s executive director for SFTR Fabien Romero and Que-Phuong Dufournet-Tran, director for trading services and analytics and regulatory affairs, spoke to SFT about the lessons learned, what work still needs to be done and why SFTR is a model for future regulations
With investment in SPACs skyrocketing over the past year, the FCA has published new listing rules to open up the UK market to SPACs and protect investors. But is it enough? Carmella Haswell reports
