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Securities lending indemnification is mispriced, subsidised by the agent providers and not all it’s cracked up to be as a risk mitigant, according to Credit Benchmark’s co-founder Mark Faulkner. He talks to Bob Currie about how to reset the economics of the agency lending market

Equating more data with more value is a notion that should be relegated to the past. S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Melissa Gow describes how the insight that solutions-based capabilities can offer is ushering in the new era of data

Linklaters’ Hannah Patterson Smith and Deepak Sitlani speak to Bob Currie about the development of the law firm’s data-first contract automation platform and the benefits this can deliver to the securities finance community

Market participants discuss the potential for ESG regulatory governance for the securities lending product, following preliminary moves by the Financial Conduct Authority to improve trust and integrity in services sold as sustainable. Carmella Haswell reports

DLT-based innovation is reshaping securities finance architecture and attracting new providers and consumers of collateral into the market. Bob Currie examines the development pipeline

Presenting to the CASLA annual conference, Benjamin Tal, managing director and deputy chief economist at CIBC, provides a Canadian perspective on macro drivers that will shape the direction of the economy and financial markets. Carmella Haswell reports

Recent action of an EU-based bank in borrowing stock to vote at a company AGM prompted criticism from industry working groups. Bob Currie examines the fallout from this widely-publicised case

Buy-side firms are relying on agent lenders to explore different means of accessing market liquidity as the securities lending discipline evolves. Carmella Haswell reports