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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

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

Presenting to the CASLA annual conference, Benjamin Tal, managing director and deputy chief economist at CIBC, provides a Canadian perspective on macro drivers that will shape the direction of the economy and financial markets. Carmella Haswell reports

Paul Solway, director and communications officer at PASLA, speaks to SFT about standout events during 2021, the focus of the Association’s development activities and securities lending markets to watch during 2022

Donato D’Eramo of RBC I&TS, and president of CASLA, shares his insights on how participants can be best-positioned to extract value in an environment of rapid change

Delegates down under gathered at this year’s PASLA/RMA conference in Sydney where hot topics included technology and forecasts for securities lending in APAC, as well as regional updates in this space

Growth in Hong Kong and Asia’s securities lending market were hot topics at this year’s PASLA/RMA conference

The industry turned its focus to South Korea as participants came together in Seoul for the PASLA/RMA Conference on Asian Securities Lending

An abundance of optimism for the future of Asian securities lending markets was exuded at the annual PASLA/RMA Conference in Singapore

Given the economic ascendency the Far East has experienced in recent decades, it is easy to understand why there was a tangible sense of excitement in the air at the Pan Asia Securities Lending Association/Risk Management Association (PASLA/RMA) Conference on Asian Securities Lending at the beginning on March.

The Canadian Securities Lending Association (CASLA) welcomed more than 170 local and international agent lenders, borrowers, regulators and other industry stakeholders at its fourth annual conference in Toronto on 8 May. The event has become the preeminent industry gathering for Canadian securities lending market participants, and this year measured up to all expectations.

Anyone who read last year’s report will know I spent too much time talking about the social scene and not enough time focusing on the reason for visiting Canada. This year it is all about the main event—the 3rd Annual Conference on Securities Lending from the Canadian Securities Lending Association (CASLA), which attracted more than 160 delegates.