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Sharegain goes live with SWIFT
12 May 2022
UK Reporter Carmella Haswell

SWIFT aims to further reduce costs for capital markets participants and lower the barriers of entry for new entrants by making on-premise connectivity redundant

SWIFT to establish public cloud connectivity to its network during 2022
28 August 2022
Belgium Reporter Bob Currie

Through its Alliance Control Virtual service, SWIFT will enable financial institutions to connect to its network and applications through selected public cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud and Azure

FactSet appoints Joel Kornblum to facilitate ecosystem growth
19 April 2022
Canada Reporter Rebecca Delaney

FactSet has appointed Joel Kornblum to work with the partnerships and alliances team to help expand the firm’s ecosystem

Provable Markets forms alliance with FIS
12 April 2022
US Reporter Carmella Haswell

The partnership will integrate Provable Markets’ Aurora service and FIS’ Securities Lending Processing Platform, to allow NSCC members and sponsored access firms entry to DTCC’s SFT Clearing Service

IHS Markit partners with Financial Recovery Technologies
08 February 2022
United States Reporter Jenna Lomax

IHS Markit has partnered with Financial Recovery Technologies to deliver asset servicing capabilities for corporate actions and class actions

Regulators should review UCITS terms to make them more lendable, members tell BoE Committee
03 February 2022
UK Reporter Bob Currie

In a wide-ranging discussion, the BoE's Securities Lending Committee addressed agent lender disclosures, problems of lending UCITS, and pressure on lending revenues, according to the newly-released minutes of its November meeting

IHS Markit partners with METACO to manage digital assets alongside traditional assets
27 January 2022
United Kingdom Reporter Jenna Lomax

IHS Markit has partnered with METACO, a provider of security software, to provide a single multi-asset platform for financial institutions to manage digital assets alongside traditional assets

Industry consortium interpret latest CSDR mandatory buy-in statement from ESMA
23 December 2021
UK Reporter Jenna Lomax

An industry consortium has co-signed a joint-association statement setting out a common interpretation of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s statement which outlines EU legislators do not expect market participants to take further action

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Canada securities lending panel

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

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Canadian securities lending panel: a view from Toronto

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

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Who watches the watchman?

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

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Broadening the market

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

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Progress in the face of uncertainty

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

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Democratising securities lending

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

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ECB Opinion Paper recommends dropping CSDR mandatory buy-ins

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

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Irais Vargas
Grupo Bursatil Mexicano (GBM)

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

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Matthew Cohen
Provable Markets

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

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Donato D’Eramo
RBC Investor & Treasury Services

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

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Fran Garritt
RMA

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

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SASLA: a roundup of the South African market

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

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South Africa: finding a place in the global financial arena

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

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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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Baltic states

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

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