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The grace period for including third-country counterparty LEIs must be extended again beyond April to avoid a liquidity crunch and undermining SFTR data integrity, warn trade bodies including ISLA and ICMA

“While not wanting to underplay the importance of our markets, securities lending has itself become the story,” he writes. “I would argue that this is not the right way to view the challenges we face at this time”

The new task force will work closely with other divisions in the agency to protect investors and the market

The two FlexShare sustainable funds, which represent the asset manager’s first European ETFs, will not join their US counterparts in lending securities, for now

A week before the first go-live of SFDR, the securities lending market still lacks clarity of whether it falls in scope

The ERCC’s SFTR taskforce has updated its reporting guide a sixth time to reflect new guidance on Brexit, settlement fails and LEIs, among other changes

The revised Q&A addresses errors in event reporting, updates to records of outstanding reports by the counterparties and operational aspects of reporting by financial counterparties on behalf of small NFCs

The firm’s post-trade business now boasts almost 1,000 active clients, including more than 500 new firms brought onboard as part of the RRH deal

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

Repo market practitioners share their views with SFT on recent trading dynamics in global repo markets, the impact of monetary tightening, automation across the repo lifecycle and new opportunities available through P2P repo

Catch up on all the biggest talking points from the days six panels

US-based securities lending specialists focus on recent market performance, projections for 2023, and the potential impact of further Fed tightening on trading and collateralisation strategies

Broadridge’s Darren Crowther sits down with Carmella Haswell to discuss the events shaping Asia’s key markets as the firm sets to expand in the region, as well as the technological trends catching the eye of clients

Tim Smith, managing director of data insights at Hazeltree, delves into how regulation is transforming the securities lending landscape and how technology plays a critical role in this evolution

Having attended the PASLA Conference in Singapore earlier this month, Carmella Haswell provides a roundup of major findings from the Association's key industry discussions

TP ICAP's Nichola Hunter and Adam Southern speak to Carmella Haswell about the firm's new "front-end refresh" and wider plans to drive the growth of its eRepo platform

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

The regulatory landscape is evolving in ways that require the market to decide how technology will enable them to satisfy their obligations, while optimising how they execute their business. GLMX’s director of business development, Anish Patel, and securities lending product manager, Dan Long, sat down with SFT to discuss their expectations for the year ahead

GLMX’s Joseph Russo, senior advisor, and Olivia Russell, sales, client development and marketing, provide insights into the growth of securities lending and cash reinvestment trading on the platform, as well as the firm’s expansion into electronic trading of money market instruments

SFT spoke with four senior Fidelity leaders to discuss the importance of making technology and intellectual capital investments to enhance agency lending for clients. For this conversation, Bob Currie is joined by Fidelity executives Todd Bosworth, head of US trading, Yuri Brightly, head of securities finance platform, Marney McCabe, head of relationship management, and Jon Whiting, head of international trading

Leading figures from Canada’s securities lending market offer an update on the key issues of the moment, including collateral changes, cannabis short interest and adapting to an environment with COVID-19

Industry leaders from the Asian securities lending sector discuss the region’s outperforming revenue, the effects of the coronavirus on behaviour and which markets will lead the pack in 2020

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

Against a politically uncertain backdrop, the UK’s securities lending industry is seeing growth and preparing for the next wave of regulation, while the risks of a no deal Brexit continues to place pressure on financial services