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Leverage

The use of borrowed capital (debt) to increase the potential return of an investment.

Leverage News

Industry
CASLA: The role of data in securities finance has fundamentally changed

Market participants at this year’s 15th Annual Conference on Canadian Securities Lending discussed the role of data and the current performance of the market

Industry
SimCorp and Clearstream partner

Following the integration, SimCorp clients are now able to access Clearstream’s fund data solutions, allowing them to outsource the tasks of disseminating data for their funds

Industry
SFS: Collateral management solutions in the Kingdom

From Shariah law to the benefits of triparty arrangements, the collateral panel at this year’s Securities Finance Times Middle East Symposium covered it all

People moves
Kaizen adds Perrotte and Husler as non-executive directors

Both Kathy Perrotte and Mark Husler bring decades of experience in financial services to the board of directors

Regulation
SASLA: Reg IM brings questions to South Africa’s SFT market

Industry participants discuss the ever-changing collateral landscape and the upcoming regulation on initial margin at the South African Securities Lending and Collateral Management conference

Repo
GFF: Central clearing in Europe still requires a lot of work

A repo panel at this week’s Global Funding and Financing Summit brought together market representatives to discuss quantitative tightening and mandatory clearing in Europe

Technology
Luxembourg Parliament adopts Blockchain Law 4

The move looks to expand the country’s legal framework to support the development of digital securities and tokenisation

People moves
BNP Paribas selects Geggus to head Triparty Collateral Services

Andrew Geggus will take on the role in addition to his current position as global head of Agency Securities Lending