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Yawar Shah retires from Swift board
16 December 2022
Belgium Reporter Bob Currie

Shah will step down from the Swift board of directors after 16 years as chair but will continue as managing director in Citi’s institutional clients group

Swift Go adds more than 300 banks over 120 countries during 2022
29 November 2022
Belgium Reporter Bob Currie

This solution aims to deliver speed and transparency to payments of up to US$10,000, enabling users to send USD, GBP and EUR payments cross-border with a breakdown of how much it will cost them in deductions before they execute

Astana exchange applies Exactpro’s testing framework for cloud-native Repo Market
17 November 2022
UK Reporter Carmella Haswell

To help increase the operational resilience of AIX’s Repo Market and provide information on its quality, Exactpro used th2 — a Kubernetes-driven microservices framework for functional and non-functional testing

GLEIF and SWIFT partners to provide mapping of MICs to LEIs
15 November 2022
Switzerland Reporter Jenna Lomax

The MIC is an International Organization for Standardization code used to process and clear trades

GLEIF releases machine learning tool for automation
01 November 2022
Switzerland Reporter Carmella Haswell

In collaboration with Sociovestix Labs, the tool was created in line with GLEIF’s objective to advance the availability of open, accurate and relevant entity identification data globally

Citi to launch 24/7 USD clearing in late 2022
11 October 2022
US Reporter Bob Currie

This service is designed to enable Citi’s financial institution customers to make USD payments 24 hours per day, 7 days per week including public holidays

SWIFT pilots Securities View to boost post-trade efficiency
28 September 2022
Belgium Reporter Bob Currie

Service applies an ISO-standard unique transaction identifier to track progress across the trade lifecycle, enabling market participants to identify trades with high risk of settlement failure and to take pre-emptive action

SWIFT applies predictive analytics to reduce processing errors in cross-border transactions
31 August 2022
Belgium Reporter Bob Currie

This solution analyses previous payments transactions conducted over the SWIFT network, on an anonymised basis, to identify potential errors in payee details and other trade information that may cause the payment to be processed incorrectly

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APAC market panel: facing stormy seas with positive momentum

Panellists evaluate the performance of Asia’s securities lending markets during 2022, new market opportunities in the APAC region and where the drivers of growth will be found during the year ahead

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Archegos: learning lessons from the past

Credit Suisse suffered losses of close to US$5.5 billion from the default of Archegos Capital Management. In the latest in a series of articles, Bob Currie reports on the role played by a lack of effective risk technology and failure to learn lessons from past defaults

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Understanding Archegos

Credit Suisse suffered losses of close to US$5.5 billion from the default of Archegos Capital Management. It identifies management failure and a focus on short-term profit at the heart of what went wrong. Bob Currie reports

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Want to promote ESG? Start short selling

As ESG becomes a growing priority for asset managers around the world, some still question whether short selling is compatible with responsible investing has been raised time and again. Now, AIMA argues that short selling is not only compatible but an essential tool in the toolbox for any ESG minded investor

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Collateral Panel

Securities finance specialists reflect on the transformation of collateral management, from an auxiliary service to a pivotal aspect of the ecosystem, and how the practice is being impacted by key regulatory initiatives

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Collateral management: from a product to a service

Over the past 15 years, collateral has become a key facet of the finance industry. In the process, it has changed from being a product that is posted, to being a service that can be optimised. Collateral efficiency is increasingly the primary goal of market participants, say Euroclear’s Mike Reece and Olivier Grimonpont

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SEC adopts Rule 10c-1 relating to reporting of securities lending trades

After issuing an initial document for public consultation in November 2021, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has now published the SEC 10c-1a Final Rule designed to promote transparency in securities lending markets by requiring parties to report the material terms of the trade by end of day on T+0. Bob Currie reports

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Accelerated Settlement: evaluating preparations for T+1 in the US and Canada

Securities Finance Times panel discussion on Accelerated Settlement examining the US and Canadian transition to T+1 securities settlement scheduled for May 2024

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Philip Morgan and Jacob Koopmans
Pirum

As Pirum approaches 25 years in the business, CEO Philip Morgan and chief revenue officer Jacob Koopmans share their thoughts on where the company is today, how their team has tackled inefficiencies in the securities finance marketplace, and how they combined scale and creativity to grow from fintech roots

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Brian Ruane
BNY Mellon

Brian Ruane, senior executive vice president, global head of clearance and collateral management at BNY Mellon, recently met with Justin Lawson to discuss the firm’s growing collateral business, connecting to new pools of collateral and how to integrate the voice of the client

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Courtney Campbell
Digital Prime Technologies

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

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Jérôme Blais
BNP Paribas

Jérôme Blais, co-head of triparty collateral services at BNP Paribas, speaks to Bob Currie about the evolution of the company’s triparty solution, the service advantages it offers and how new clients can overcome initial anxieties about triparty adoption

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Warning: Change ahead

Industry experts offer a run-down of everything to be cognisant of in the US market for 2020, from fixing the repo market and possible collateral rule changes, to revenue predictions and much more

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UK

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

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Malaysia

At the heart of the growing Asian market, Malaysia is playing an increasingly large role in the global securities lending market

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Australia

Australia has a well-developed securities lending business, but it suffered during the downturn and has some way to go before it can return to the peaks

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