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Regulation
Hazeltree partners with Reg-X
14 May 2025 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell
The collaboration aims to bring fully-automated, transparent regulatory reporting to Hazeltree’s global network of clients
People moves
ISDA board welcomes new directors
14 May 2025 Netherlands
Reporter: Daniel Tison
Four new directors have joined the board at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, in addition to nine having been re-elected
Repo
LSF becomes Euroclear direct member
13 May 2025 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell
In addition to the new membership, the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility has defined for Euroclear a standardised Africa GC triparty repo basket
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To exempt, or not to exempt
Leading the transition to T+1 for Europe and the UK, Giovanni Sabatini and Andrew Douglas sit down with Carmella Haswell to discuss the possible exemption of SFTs from the shorter settlement cycle
Post-trade reporting: Regulators call time on poor practice
A recent fine shows that regulators are losing patience with failures in post-trade transaction reporting. Linda Coffman, Reference Data Services SmartStream, suggests that specialist data services can help firms improve their ability to comply
The intraday credit risk challenge
With securities financing tools playing an ever more critical role in optimising financial resources for banks, Dipak Chotai of JD Risk Solutions, and Richard Glen of HQLAX, discuss intraday credit risk and the significance of DLT to mitigate this challenge
Firing the starting pistol on T+1
The UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce held an industry event to kickstart the move to a shorter settlement cycle. Jack McRae reports
The kingdom of tradition and innovation
Following the recent introduction of short selling and securities lending facilities, Daniel Tison explores the rapidly growing capital market of Saudi Arabia
ECB trials in review: The French perspective
In the second instalment of this two-part series, Daniel Tison invites Banque de France and BNP Paribas to join the discussion on the recently completed ECB DLT trials and experiments
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Standard Bank
Hitesh Harduth
Hitesh Harduth, head of securities lending, speaks to Carmella Haswell about his 19-year career at Standard Bank, and how the firm is working to develop African markets
Alternative Investment Management Association
Drew Nicol
Former Securities Finance Times Editor Drew Nicol was part of a team of more than 50 hedge fund industry participants that took a challenging half marathon to raise vital funds for Help for Children UK
Murex
Sabine Farhat
Sabine Farhat, Murex’s head of securities financing, lending and repo product management, shares a 2025 outlook for securities financing transactions markets
KDPW_CCP
Maciej Trybuchowski
Maciej Trybuchowski, CEO of KDPW_CCP, provides an overview of the upcoming EMIR 3.0 regulation as market participants prepare for new active account requirements
Aware Super
Henry Trinh
Henry Trinh, associate portfolio manager at Aware Super, sits down with Carmella Haswell to provide the Australian perspective on securities lending for beneficial owners and how the fund tackles barriers to market
S&P Global Market Intelligence Cappitech
Igor Kaplun
The focus on data quality and enforcement by regulatory agencies is heating up, with more pressure piling on market participants to ensure that reporting is complete, accurate, and timely, warns S&P Global Market Intelligence Cappitech’s Igor Kaplun
EquiLend
Rich Grossi
Rich Grossi joined EquiLend as its new CEO in November 2024. He sits down with Carmella Haswell to discuss the last six months and how he will take the company forward
ISLA Americas
Fran Garritt
Fran Garritt, CEO of ISLA Americas, sits down with Justin Lawson to discuss the upcoming US Treasury clearing mandate from an agent lender cash desk perspective, and addresses a critical need to raise awareness of the new rules for in-scope firms
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News and people moves roundupFuture-proofing the business
Hitesh Harduth, head of securities lending, speaks to Carmella Haswell about his 19-year career at Standard Bank, and how the firm is working to develop African markets.To exempt, or not to exempt
Leading the transition to T+1 for Europe and the UK, Giovanni Sabatini and Andrew Douglas sit down with Carmella Haswell to discuss the exemption of SFTs.Regulators call time on poor practice
A recent fine shows that regulators are losing patience with failures in post-trade transaction reporting.
