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Changing places

S3 Blacklight’s Ihor Dusaniwsky explains how US and UK REIT ETFs did an about-turn after the UK’s referendum on its EU membership

Under pressure: financial services turns the screw

The BCBS has been taken to task over its latest leverage ratio framework proposal, with commentators claiming it may unbalance global markets and damage the business model of clearinghouses

Dawning of a new era

Traditional collateral management functions are evolving into a collateral and liquidity trading business, says Bimal Kadikar of Transcend Street Solutions

Don’t cry for me, I’m already ahead

ISLA’s Securities Finance and Collateral Management Conference brought the European market together to address the industry’s biggest challenges, and to celebrate the progress it has made over the last quarter of a century

The scales of synthetics

Experts gather to debate the rise of synthetic financing in a world where the balance sheet is lord and master and must be obeyed

Clash of the assets

CCPs are able to bring together the demand and supply for collateral management and liquidity. Eurex Clearing’s Gerard Denham explains

Synthetic finance gains traction

Expectations are that synthetic transactions will continue to grow to help offset regulatory pressures, says James Treseler of Societe Generale

No longer born equal

Experts discuss the possible Brexit, fears over the future of repo and how business is faring in Europe, as well as their most vivid memories of the past 25 years with the ISLA conference coming up later in June

Strength in numbers

The SFTR’s technical details still need to be thrashed out, but early reports suggest that the securities lending industry has its work cut out

First mover disadvantage

The EU moved first with its reporting requirements for SFTs, but beating other FSB members to the punch might have been a mistake. Paul Landless of Clifford Chance and Greg Lyons of Debevoise & Plimpton report