FIS’ Ted Allen charts his journey into distributed ledger, detailing the benefits this can deliver to securities finance and the challenges of adapting to the institutional market
FIS’ David Lewis welcomes the return of in-person conference sessions and assesses the merits of cooperative data sharing in advance of the ISLA conference in Vienna
FIS’ David Lewis notes that there are already many fund providers where the fund management fees are low or even zero and where securities lending revenues are used to keep the lights on and the funds managed
Reflecting on the past 12 months of market data, FIS’ David Lewis observes that securities finance is getting ever more complex and busy, generating pressure on margins as work levels rise proportionally faster than revenue generation
The power of the retail investor is increasing, affecting the way issuers communicate with their investors, how service providers deliver their offerings and how regulators supervise. FIS’ David Lewis examines the implications for securities finance markets
Paul Wilson, managing director and global head of securities finance at IHS Markit, finds that global securities finance revenues increased year-on-year, sustained particularly by equity values and returning demand in APAC as markets removed short-selling bans
Regulators will push through a full agenda in 2022 designed to tighten market behaviour and to improve standards. But there are no new rules to encourage caveat emptor, or let the buyer beware, observes FIS’s David Lewis
Whether it is SFTR or SFDR, regulators must be clear about regulatory objectives, the data to be gathered and how they measure that data, says FIS’ David Lewis. A lack of certainty runs the risk that regulations will have the opposite effect to what was intended
There is widespread opportunity for the finance industry to support the principles of sustainable securities lending, however progress might be measured or guided by regulators and central banks, says FIS’ David Lewis
Collateral re-use dropped off dramatically after the financial crisis of 2008, but has been recovering since 2016. FIS’ David Lewis explores the implications
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