As at 29 June, there were circa €950 billion of equity securities on-loan from an available lendable supply of just over €12 trillion, according to an equity markets report by ISLA
“The utilisation of technology to replace all the labour-intensive processes must be integral to our conversations”, according to Boaz Yaari, founder and CEO of Sharegain.
With the US equity market under selling pressure early September, the MSCI World has registered its worst week since late March, down almost 1.5 percent, according to Lyxor’s weekly briefing
The European Securities and Markets Authority has updated its public register with the latest set of double volume cap data under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive
The main challenges for repo traders at the moment are compliance with evolving regulation, managing cyber risk, and ensuring the harmonisation and standardisation is in place to enable the industry to really take advantage of new technology
The SFTR draft technical standards, as proposed by the European Commission, “will not provide certainty, clarity, predictability and consistency”, according to the European Securities and Markets Authority
PGGM sees Eurex Clearing as the “most important innovation” in securities lending in the past few years, according to Roelof van der Struik, investment manager at PGGM
Hazeltree, a provider of integrated buy-side treasury management solutions, has appointed Askin Leung as managing director and head of Hazeltree Asia Pacific
The International Securities Lending Association has appointed Richard Colvill has to work exclusively on the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation
