Interviews

HQLA^X sales team Elisa Poutanen and Charlie Amesbury discuss fragmentation across settlement systems as a key market pain point, while exploring the firm’s mission to redefine collateral mobility through its operating model

eSecLending’s president Chris Jaynes speaks to Bob Currie about the main ingredients that have powered the company’s approach to agency lending and how clients are pushing for greater alignment between their securities lending, financing and treasury management functions

RBC Investor & Treasury Services’ Chris Barrand and Arthur Kolodziejczyk, co-heads of securities finance trading and product, map out the state of play for the US, EMEA and Canadian markets and reveal how the firm intends to future proof an ever evolving ecosystem. Carmella Haswell reports

RMA director of securities lending and global markets risk Fran Garritt explores the upcoming Form N-PX amendments and its impact on funds and institutional investment managers. Carmella Haswell reports

David Raccat, Wematch co-founder and global head of securities finance, speaks to Bob Currie about the advance of the company’s cross-asset platform, digitisation of securities finance, and its ambition to be the number one TRS ecosystem worldwide

The fastest growing asset class on the Collateral Highway is Japanese Government Bonds, says Jan Grauls, product manager of collateral management services at Euroclear, who explores the factors driving its increasing use and acceptance

Yuka Hasumi, head of EquiLend Japan, speaks to Carmella Haswell on the firm’s plan to transform the securities lending space through its 1Source initiative, the varying pace of change for regulation globally and trading opportunities

Digital Prime Technologies’ head of lending solutions Courtney Campbell speaks to Carmella Haswell about spearheading the firm’s new digital asset lending platform, Tokenet, and how it plans to reshape the institutional digital lending market