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Securities finance news and commentary

Technology

alrajhi capital selects EquiLend

11 June 2026 Saudi Arabia
Reporter: Hansa Tote

EquiLend will provide the firm with a full end-to-end solution including EquiLend Spire, post-trade data, and trading.

Industry

BSF Capital joins ISLA

11 June 2026 Saudi Arabia
Reporter: Hansa Tote

Headquartered in Riyadh, BSF Capital is a financial services provider and the investment arm of BSF, a banking institution in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Technology

Clearstream unveils digital securities infrastructure

11 June 2026 Luxembourg
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The firm is launching a hybrid post-trade infrastructure handling both traditional and digital securities, digitising the full lifecycle, including settlement, custody, and asset servicing

People moves

Marex hires Woodcock

11 June 2026 Hong Kong
Reporter: Hansa Tote

People moves

ISLA names O’Donnell as COO

11 June 2026 UK
Reporter: Hansa Tote

People moves

D2 Legal Technology appoints Heymann

10 June 2026 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Daniel Heymann brings more than 20 years of experience in the legal field to his new role

People moves

Broadridge selects Diganci

10 June 2026 US
Reporter: Hansa Tote

Todd Diganci will serve on the audit committee of the board of directors, which will now consist of 10 members, eight of whom are independent

People moves

Hazeltree appoints Hu

10 June 2026 Hong Kong
Reporter: Hansa Tote

Victoria Hu moves to the role from Consumer Edge where she spent more than a year as an account executive, APAC

People moves

Ownera welcomes Sherman

09 June 2026 US
Reporter: Hansa Tote

Diane Sherman brings more than 20 years of experience across capital markets, focussing on the evolution of tokenisation, trading platforms, and collateral optimisation to the role

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Features

Repo resilience: Why today’s US repo market tends to bend rather than break

The structure of the modern US repo market has evolved significantly since previous episodes of stress. Thomas Hefty, head of front-end repo rates trading at BMO Capital Markets, looks at how central clearing, sponsored repo, and Federal Reserve backstops are reshaping market resilience

The benefits of an integrated fixed income value chain: From trading to clearing and settlement

Yama Darriet, head of OTC Capture and Repo Expansion Initiative at Euronext, explores fragmentation across the value chain and the significance of infrastructure design

The case for central repo clearing

Commonwealth Bank’s Russell Simpson, Michael Tang, Dr Hamid Yahyaei, and Shelby Kaye, discuss Australia’s evolving repo market and the push for central clearing

Navigating repo markets: The strategic role of BUCKLER Securities

Andrew Lazar, managing director, head of sales at BUCKLER Securities, provides an overview of the firm’s position in the market and its focused approach to fixed income financing

The race to optimise the repo market

OSTTRA’s Neil Taylor, head of securities finance, solution design, and Gary Hawkins, head of repo optimisation, speak to Carmella Haswell on the firm’s work to optimise the repo market and take it to its next stage

Growth without compromise

Michel Semaan, global head of RepoClear, LCH, discusses the firm’s UK and EU cash bond and repo trade clearing service, from breaking down barriers to reacting to client feedback

Repo clearing is here. Is your collateral framework ready?

The SEC mandate for central clearing of US Treasury repo is no longer a future problem. FICC is the venue, the timeline is set, and the firms still in ‘wait and see’ mode are running out of time. Wassel Dammak, strategic account director for Europe & UK Capital Markets at Vermeg, looks at what this shift means operationally, and why the firms that get it right will have a structural advantage

Repo reinvented: 30 years on — the practical path to speed, clarity, and confidence

Sunil Daswani, global head of Client Management, Match Products, at MarketAxess, discusses repo market ‘plumbing’ following the third annual Global Reimagine Repo conference

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Podcasts

Acadia Ahead of the Curve

Word on the (Clear) Street

eSecLending Insights

Making Sense

Interviews

Lago Kapital

Nordic growth and challenger positioning

Lago Kapital CEO Jarkko Järvitalo sits down with Hansa Tote to discuss the firm’s expansion across Scandinavia, built on a foundation of securities lending, with integrated offerings spanning market making, incentive programmes, and complex valuation services

BNY

Investing in resilience: Navigating the US Treasury clearing mandate

Nate Wuerffel, head of product for Global Collateral and head of Market Structure at BNY, provides a comprehensive perspective on the US Treasury market and the upcoming clearing mandate that is set to impact not only the US, but Asia and Europe also. Carmella Haswell reports

National Bank of Canada

Trading with agility: Driving the business forward in a rapidly evolving market

James Bryce, Mathilda Yared, and Steven Scholl of National Bank of Canada speak to Carmella Haswell on driving the business forward via technological investment, building the foundations to prepare for upcoming regulatory changes, and questioning infrastructure through a digital assets lens

London Stock Exchange Group

A single source of trade and agreement data

London Stock Exchange Group recently launched TradeAgent, designed to replace the industry’s duplicative processes with a single source of trade and agreement data. Annabel Harrison speaks with Hansa Tote to discuss the platform — from collaboration to cutting costs

CIBC Mellon

Talent at the core: Shaping the future of Canada’s securities finance industry

CIBC Mellon’s Lisa Tomada, vice president of securities lending, and William Yan, relationship executive of markets, review the search for talent, a broadening skill set, and supporting the next generation as a consequential investment

EquiLend

From fragmentation to integration: Rethinking the securities finance lifecycle

Tony Camarota, head of Spire at EquiLend, discusses eliminating the divide between the front and back office, the significance of a unified model, and the role Spire 3.0 plays in tackling fragmentation

NeoClear

Next generation clearing: A low-touch high-tech solution

Paul Whitehead and Helena Frumson of NeoClear provide an in-depth discussion on Europe’s reliances on non-EU clearing capacity and how the firm is positioning to build a new market infrastructure

EquiLend

Beyond electronic trading: The digital evolution of securities finance

Nick Delikaris, chief product officer at EquiLend, explores how connected infrastructure, shared data, and digital market frameworks are reshaping securities finance, as institutions move towards a unified operating model spanning traditional and tokenised assets

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Magazine

News and people moves roundup

At the centre of trading execution

BrokerTec’s Matthew Gierke and Sara Carter on the firm’s move to support central clearing and plans to connect its offerings.

A collection of expertise

John Stracquadanio, CEO of Appia Financial Services, sits down with Hansa Tote to discuss the aims of the business, target clientele, and initial product offerings in a world that is becoming increasingly technologically minded.

The clock is ticking

Rising rates, compressing settlement cycles, and the emergence of DLT-based platforms have thrust intraday repo into the institutional spotlight. Murex’s Ramzi Khemakhem, head of repo and secured funding product management, and Dorothy Queant, securities finance connectivity manager, explain why the economics have shifted.

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