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This second testing phase has extended the project coverage to include a more complex set of use cases, employing Swift’s solution to support transactions across simulated digital transactions, tokenised assets and foreign exchange networks

Alexandre Kech will succeed the not-for-profit organisation’s current CEO Stephan Wolf, who has served in his position for a decade

Through Intix, Clearstream will have enhanced accessibility to financial messaging data, such as SWIFT MTs and ISO 20022 structured messages and files

Two rotating board seats will be allocated to the investing companies, allowing them to contribute to the platform’s strategic direction

Sarah Wilson will take on the role of strategic advisor on asset stewardship, where she will also review Global PSSL’s United Nations Pathways Programme

As North America prepares for the T+1 transition, other jurisdictions must consider the impact on their own operations, panellists at this year’s Securities Finance Times Technology Symposium affirmed

The goal of the collaboration is to promote greater transparency in corporate ownership and control in support of safer, faster, and more efficient global payment activities

Its central bank digital currency connector is designed to ensure that CBDCs can coexist with each other and with established fiat currency payments infrastructure, says the Brussels-based organisation

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

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

The over-the-counter collateral management industry plays a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth functioning of global markets, says State Street’s Sam Edwards, global head of triparty, European and APAC head of relationship management for collateral services, who suggests that this sector is at a crossroads and ripe for transformation

Bob Currie reports on efforts to promote a common digital representation of lifecycle events for securities lending, repo and derivatives trades and examines what comes next on the Common Domain Model project agenda

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

Marney McCabe, head of relationship management for agency lending, speaks to Carmella Haswell about joining Fidelity Agency Lending and about the key ingredients of a successful securities lending programme

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