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RBC Investor Services

RBC Investor Services’ team

The RBC Investor Services’ team offers their perspective on the changes in beneficial owner demands, where they see opportunities in the Canadian and emerging global markets, and how the firm's new strategy is shaping the future of securities finance

BNY

Simon Squire

BNY's Simon Squire, managing director of product, Global Collateral, explores buy side trends, asset tokenisation, and optimisation goals, in his review of the Canadian market

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

Arcesium

Himanshu Bagr and Ashley Bell

Arcesium’s Himanshu Bagri, product lead, Treasury Suite, and Ashley Bell, vice president, Financial Operations, look at the importance of timely margin calculations when managing risk

Japan Securities Finance

Kenta Yamamoto and Kohei Takeda

With the end of the Bank of Japan’s monetary easing policy, the Japanese market is moving towards normalisation and garnering attention from global investors, says Japan Securities Finance’s Kohei Takeda and Kenta Yamamoto

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