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GASLA releases update to Global Framework for ESG and Securities Lending
07 March 2023
UK Reporter Jenna Lomax

The initiative reflects GASLA’s commitment to provide market participants with a practical framework for evaluating securities lending in the context of financial institutions’ ESG policies

Mizuho Securities USA appoints Sureka to head equity finance
29 November 2022
US Reporter Carmella Haswell

Sandeep Sureka, former managing director, head of financing and structuring at Wells Fargo, will join the Mizuho Securities USA New York office

RMA: Committees look to revise best practices and discover the equal balance
13 October 2022
RMA Conference 2022 Reporter Carmella Haswell

The Risk Management Association (RMA) provided an association update in one of its afternoon panels on day one of the RMA conference, discussing the next steps for a number of its committees

Delta Capita extends Yield.io technology to customers through risk management partnership
06 October 2022
UK Reporter Bob Currie

Through this collaboration, Delta Capita’s clients will benefit from Yield.io’s model risk management technology, enabling a user to manage model risk and to streamline model development and validation in one platform

DTCC extends data ecosystem alliance with Snowflake
27 September 2022
US Reporter Bob Currie

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation has announced a partnership with Snowflake to support data access and data sharing across selected DTCC services using the Snowflake Data Cloud

SmartStream and Kynec form alliance
06 September 2022
UK Reporter Klea Neza

The strategic alliance aims to deliver consolidated margin positions across global over-the-counter cleared and bilateral markets

TS Imagine expands team amid ‘strong growth’
12 July 2022
UK Reporter Carmella Haswell

Paul Sweeney, Puiter Kogan and Marina Melnick are among the nearly 100 new hires to TS Imagine

Provable Markets hires Andreassian and Foley to support Aurora
18 May 2022
US Reporter Carmella Haswell

Rachel Andreassian joins Provable Markets as director of product and market infrastructure, while Brian Foley becomes managing director of sales at the firm’s New York headquarters

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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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