Posts by Josh Galper

The value of dissent: Peirce at the SEC and Brainard at the Fed

ISDA looks to ramp up secfinance and repo expertise

Finadium: Building Out Repo Data for New Industry Needs (free from DTCC)

Finadium: Short-sale Transparency Challenges and Solutions

Thursday news roundup: China and QE; repo clearing mandates; SA-CCR; in memoriam Jim Malgieri

Analysis of the SEC’s proxy voting rule proposal for securities finance professionals

How to refill the securities finance and collateral hiring pool, now at its lowest level ever

Funding market responses to a possible US debt ceiling default

More definitions of green repo emerge with market development

Securities finance could solve a proposed ETF in-kind redemption taxation issue

Bank of England’s Andrew Hauser on principles for central bank intervention

Who is trading on Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo platform

Finadium: Securities Finance at the Gates of Crypto

State Street acquisition of BBH changes the agency lending landscape

Fed tri-party repo reporting, while accurate enough, needs an upgrade to keep pace with market structure

Without payment for order flow, expect more institutional market making desks

Finadium is looking for a Research Analyst to join our team

Should bond holders care if financing trades are made as securities loans or repo?

Retail brokerage impacts on the hard to borrow securities lending market

What we learned from DTCC’s filings to launch their equity finance CCP

Finadium announces client webinar on blockchain collateral trading platforms, asks “what is this all about?”

Will a Fed taper help with the collateral shortage?

Which US fund companies are making money in securities lending, and why

Finadium: Best Practices in US Fully Paid Securities Lending

LCH and Eurex look to sponsored repo for the right reasons

Big tech entrants in capital markets may be closer than you think

Finadium Big Ideas Quarterly Q3 2021 now online

Update: we size the global repo markets at US$13.4 trillion

No amount of adjustments to Treasury market structure solves for ineffective public policy

Crypto has lessons on client engagement for the securities industry (Premium)

US House introduces “Short Sale Transparency and Market Fairness Act” (Premium)

Central bank interventions and rising stock values are a bad combination

What’s the buy-side market demand for securities lending benchmarking services? (Premium)

The real and unreal things Reddit says about securities lending (Premium)

A year of re-envisioning for bank funding infrastructure

The politics of an ISDA “master” agreement for SFTs (Premium)

Two questions on DeFi smart contracts in repo and securities finance (Premium)

Central banks, securities finance and the stories we tell about inflation (Premium)

Finadium: Collateral Management Technology Vendor Survey 2021

Analysis: the FOMC conversation on a Standing Repo Facility (Premium)

WSJ article on US mutual fund returns and securities lending brings incomplete data to faulty conclusions

The pledge model is taking off in European tri-party (Premium)

A flurry of press releases shows strategic industry tech directions (Premium)

Two big new bank rules went into effect this week with impacts for global repo

How far can tokenization’s leaders go in securities collateral markets? (Premium)

Total Return Swap risk: Fed survey shines light on two complex dealer mechanics (Premium)

Three papers on repo and collateral show holes and opportunities in market structure (Premium)

An argument for beneficial owners to outsource securities lending corporate governance (Premium)

Four securities finance impacts from the Fed’s adjustment to IOER and RRP rates (Premium)

The relationship between Peer to Peer success and bank balance sheet availability is breaking down (Premium)