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Don’t cry for me, I’m already ahead

ISLA’s Securities Finance and Collateral Management Conference brought the European market together to address the industry’s biggest challenges, and to celebrate the progress it has made over the last quarter of a century

The scales of synthetics

Experts gather to debate the rise of synthetic financing in a world where the balance sheet is lord and master and must be obeyed

Clash of the assets

CCPs are able to bring together the demand and supply for collateral management and liquidity. Eurex Clearing’s Gerard Denham explains

Synthetic finance gains traction

Expectations are that synthetic transactions will continue to grow to help offset regulatory pressures, says James Treseler of Societe Generale

No longer born equal

Experts discuss the possible Brexit, fears over the future of repo and how business is faring in Europe, as well as their most vivid memories of the past 25 years with the ISLA conference coming up later in June

Strength in numbers

The SFTR’s technical details still need to be thrashed out, but early reports suggest that the securities lending industry has its work cut out

First mover disadvantage

The EU moved first with its reporting requirements for SFTs, but beating other FSB members to the punch might have been a mistake. Paul Landless of Clifford Chance and Greg Lyons of Debevoise & Plimpton report

Build or buy?

The in-house versus vendor debate polarises opinion. Consolo senior partner Richard Colvill speaks to four experts to see where the answer might lie

Fully pledged

BNY Mellon is expanding to support demand for fixed income trading in the Asia Pacific, say Howard Field and Paul Solway of BNY Mellon

Understanding CSDR in detail

The settlement discipline regime of CSDR, as proposed, might actually make failure an option, according to Matthew Johnson of DTCC

In a dark, dark market

Is the so-called collateral shortfall a result of asset hoarding, excessive regulation, or simply a tall tale told to young bankers before bedtime?

The Goldilocks zone

Glenn Horner of State Street reviews the newly proposed securities financing transaction standardised calculation, finding it to be just right

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