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Plenty to sweat over

ISLA’s 22nd Annual International Securities Lending Conference took place in a picturesque Prague. Attendees came out in force for the informative panel discussions despite sweltering heat

Lending CCP: what do you believe?

Tobias Duchscherer of CofiNet and Markus Büttner of Comyno Ltd. explain why central counterparties can be good for securities lending

Future thoughts for smaller funds

There was an interesting survey reported in the last edition of SLT. I know, I know; ‘interesting’ and ‘survey’ don’t belong in the same sentence

Refining the legacy

While CIOs despair at the thought of such upheaval, refreshing legacy systems can be vital to a bank with a problematic data setup, as SLT discovers

Mud and mire

A panel at SWIFT’s London forum attempted to wade through the swamp of regulations affecting collateral and found very few routes through

Straight to the basis point

CASLA’s 3rd Annual Conference on Securities Lending saw the appointment of the association’s new president, and some lively panel debates

Oversight under the microscope

When a beneficial owner employs an asset manager and a separate agent lender, the asset manager sometimes takes a share of the fees for oversight of the lending programme.