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ISLA’s CEO Andrew Dyson and first female chair Ina Budh-Raja speak with Carmella Haswell on the Association's three-year strategy as the industry undergoes an unprecedented period of transformative change

Stephan Wolf, CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, speaks to Carmella Haswell on the trials and tribulations of its universal project to onboard validation agents in preparing securities finance markets for upcoming LEI legislation

The implementation of Central Securities Depositories Regulation has invoked regulators to publish guidance on best practices to tackle the legislation for the bond and repo markets. Carmella Haswell summarises all you need to know

Andrew Dyson, ISLA’s chief executive, speaks to SFT about industry highlights during 2021, the focus of the Association’s development activities and key lessons learnt over the past two years

The introduction of the ‘ISLA Clause Library & Taxonomy’ marks an important step in the securities lending market’s digitisation journey, explains Andrew Dyson, chief executive, International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) and Akber Datoo, CEO, D2 Legal Technology (D2LT)

Following completion of its securities lending CDM pilot in November, ISLA plans to finish coding of its CDM minimum viable product for mid-June as part of a wider set of standardisation initiatives

The association’s common domain model has completed its pilot phase. SFT speaks to members of the ISLA working group to discuss how it went and what’s next

Members of ISLA’s ESG working group and Council for Sustainable Finance describe how responsible investing has taken centre stage in the global economic fightback against COVID-19

SLT catches up with some of ISLA’s CSDR working group to assess the current state-of-play for CSDR in the wake of a further delay and lingering technical issues with the regime

Contributors to ISLA’s SRD II taskforce unpack what the incoming update to the Shareholders Rights Directive means for securities lending and what challenges await

Members of ISLA’s SFTR Working Group discuss the upcoming regulation and the journey they took to get here

Richard Colvill of ISLA discusses how the association is helping the industry prepare for SFTR and how its steering committee shapes the future of securities lending