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John Ridout joins Xceptor’s London office where he will lead the sales team and the firm’s growth strategy for EMEA and APAC

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

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

DTCC has blocked Russian securities from the Bank of Russia and The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Euroclear Bank and Clearstream are no longer accepting Russian ruble as a settlement currency on their international central securities depositories in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The Bank of Russia has imposed a ban on short selling that came into effect on Thursday 24 February and will remain until further notice

SETL is to work with SWIFT on an innovation pilot as part of a wider effort to support interoperability in the development of the tokenised asset market

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s central trade manager service for US domestic trade matching has grown to more than 1,800 firms, with organisations further consolidating global post-trade flows on a single platform

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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