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Symposium: UMR is a “massive driver” for the buy side

06 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The panel at the SLT Securities Finance Technology Symposium noted that on the buy side, people who are more focused on value propositions and solution enablers are driven by regulation and automation

Symposium: Liquidity is key in securities lending

06 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

During a liquidity panel at the SLT Securities Finance Technology Symposium, one panellist highlighted that liquidity is one of the immediate ways to measure the efficiency of the market

BNP Paribas launches new securities lending desk in Hong Kong

05 November 2020 Hong Kong
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Located in Hong Kong, the new desk will focus on Asian markets and provide local client coverage to meet growing appetite from clients looking to increase their asset allocations into the region

Introducing: Securities Finance Times

05 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

To better represent the markets sophisticated landscape we now live, Securities Lending Times is “levelling up” to become Securities Finance Times

Bloomberg adds Credit Benchmark’s assessment data to dashboard

05 November 2020 New York
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Credit Benchmark’s data tools are now embedded into the Bloomberg Terminal to help market participants assess the credit quality or risk of default of a counterparty, company or entity

Should the market have opted for a standardised SFTR solution?

05 November 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Panellists at the SLT Securities Finance Technology Symposium discussed the long journey leading to the various SFTR solutions we see today and pondered whether a standardised solution should have been implemented