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Fund Recs' dual solution will support Innocap's EMIR and SFTR related data management and operational workflows

Founded in 2013 by ASX, B3, Clearstream and Strate, the Liquidity Alliance is a global association of market infrastructures, delivering collateral management services

Through Intix, Clearstream will have enhanced accessibility to financial messaging data, such as SWIFT MTs and ISO 20022 structured messages and files

At this year’s South African Securities Lending Association conference in Cape Town, market participants gathered to discuss how ESG is impacting the financial markets

Financial services technology firm FIS has appointed James Kehoe as chief financial officer. He replaces Erik Hoag, who has held the position since August 2022

This collaboration will reinforce Matrixport’s prime brokerage solution by enabling institutional customers to keep their assets within Copper infrastructure while being able to trade on ClearLoop-linked exchanges via their Matrixport sub-accounts

The collaboration aims to enhance J.P. Morgan’s securities agency lending offering with Sharegain’s SLTech solution, improving accessibility to wealth managers and online broker participants

Jason Wells, Asia Pacific head of agency trading at State Street Bank and Trust, will replace former chair Ben Burns, who recently resigned from his position following his departure from BlackRock

Securities lending specialists reflect on the drivers of performance in the Canadian market over the past 12 months, key changes in technology and market practice and how the future looks for the rest of 2023 and beyond

Canada-based securities lending specialists speak to SFT about the market outlook, technology, sustainable lending and what will drive their development expenditure moving into 2023

As the dust settles on the collapse of Wirecard, regulators shouldn’t sweep their part in the scandal under the rug ignoring the short selling ban that protected fraudsters

Paul Solway, communications officer at PASLA and BNY Mellon’s head of securities finance for Asia, speaks to Carmella Haswell about the opportunities presented across the APAC market, PASLA’s focus for 2023 and how Q1 is shaping up for the industry

Despite a particularly volatile environment, securities lending continued to thrive in 2022. Kyle Kolasingh, director of securities finance at RBC Investor & Treasury Services, shares his perspective on the past year and what lies ahead for 2023

Sharegain’s deputy CEO and chief of staff Keren Halperin speaks to Bob Currie about democratising share ownership rights, how to scale a fintech and lessons that yoga and surfing can offer to solutions development

Bob Currie gauges industry reaction to recent dialogue on CSDR settlement discipline and assesses how well market participants have adapted to the cash penalties regime

Irais Vargas, head of securities lending and global operations at Grupo Bursatil Mexicano (GBM), speaks to SFT about the expansion of securities lending opportunities in the Mexican market

Matthew Cohen, chief executive of Provable Markets, speaks to Bob Currie about the benefits that their vertically-integrated ATS is bringing to securities finance and how cryptographic research is driving their approach to product design and development over the medium and long term

Donato D’Eramo, head of securities finance at RBC Investor & Treasury Services (RBC I&TS), speaks to SFT about his team’s projections for Canada’s securities lending market, its commitment to data innovation and CASLA’s regulatory focus for the year ahead

Risk Management Association’s Securities Lending Council provides a key resource for the industry and its regulators to ensure transparent and well-functioning securities lending markets. RMA’s Fran Garritt tells SFT where it will be focusing its attention during 2022

Having attended the SASLA Conference in Cape Town last month, Carmella Haswell provides a roundup of major findings from the Association's key industry discussions

Carmella Haswell explores South Africa’s transition from its first securities finance transaction in 1988 to its current status as Africa’s largest securities lending market

The UK’s securities lending landscape seems to be holding steady, but with the country’s EU membership under scrutiny, is there danger ahead?

The triumvirate of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have got the basics right. But are they too small to thrive?