Posts by Josh Galper

Finadium: Cloud Computing Adoption Curve and Risks in Institutional Financial Markets

Market feedback and trend analysis from the week (Premium)

Dodd-Frank reform passes US Senate but the House will be tough (Premium)

US repo rates jumped last week: an expected outcome with drivers that suggest future directions

Presentation: The Legitimacy of Cryptocurrencies and Internet Coin Offerings (Premium)

Finadium: Solving the Credit Risk Exposure Problem for the Buy-side in Securities Finance

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) sets a new, extraterritorial standard for client data protection

Best practices for buy-side securities lending at FISL NYC and London – not just a good idea but important for revenues and risk management

How many data fields are really needed by regulators to supervise Securities Financing Transactions?

New US tax rules are creating a global arbitrage to avoid the 30% interest expense limit (Premium)

Top commercial transactions of the last week (Premium)

Could LIBOR legally be a synthetic? The FCA says its time to take a close look

Could LIBOR legally be a synthetic? The FCA says it’s time to take a close look

Is Asia coming of age in securities finance and collateral at last?

Securities Lending Data for Data Geeks and Quants

US Treasury issues recommendations to change US bank bankruptcies – does it matter? (Premium)

ESMA power centralization arguments are really an argument about the future of the European Union

Applying Artificial Intelligence to Securities Finance

The Basel Committee thinks there are five bank scenarios for fintech disruption; only one matters in capital markets (Premium)

Finadium Survey: Better Regulation for Europe’s Securities Financing Transactions

Custodians really are making the transition to “technology as a service” providers (Premium)

Securities lending in the news: myths, lawsuits and a few platitudes (Premium)

Finadium: Blockchain Securities Lending Marketplaces: Can They Succeed?

IHS Markit’s Ed Marhefka on why participate in Finadium’s Investors in Securities Lending Conference

Webinar: Securities Lending Data for Data Geeks and Quants Feb 28

Elixium’s Stephen Malekian: All to All will be a new pillar of the collateral trading market

The global bond market sell-off and its big benefits for securities lending

News Update: dividend taxes in Switzerland, the US and Germany; and what’s next for the Basel Committee (Premium)

SFM Magazine, Winter 2018, is now online

New data on prime brokerage financing revenues (Premium)

Finadium welcomes Kurt Jarnagin as Senior Consultant in Frankfurt

The US Senate’s obvious Volcker Rule arbitrage for trading and financing

Success stories this week in securities finance (Premium)

Finadium: Evolution of the Total Return Swaps Market

The Minneapolis Fed wants a 15% Leverage Ratio and a 1.2% tax on secured financing. That’s one way to reduce risk…

Securities finance as an alpha generator on the buy-side? A FISL NYC and London afternoon session

Finadium: Smart Contract Vendors on Solving Problems in Capital Markets: A Finadium Survey

Artificial Intelligence is one way of several to bridge the manual to STP gap (Premium)

Agenda now online for Finadium Investors in Securities Lending Conference New York, April 11-12 2018

Would you accept a central bank digital currency as collateral? (Premium)

How did US and European repo markets fare at the end of 2017? (Premium)

Networked collateral ecosystems will strengthen in 2018

More firms get serious about real-time exposure management for collateral (Premium)

The plot thickens: the first amended complaint on US banks alleging collusion in securities lending shows the fruits of discovery (Premium)

We’re not much worried about US tax reform’s impact on repo, but non-tri-party, non-DvP repo participants should stay alert

A quick primer on “settled-to-market” vs. “collateralized-to-market” in counterparty credit risk (Premium)

ESMA Q&A updates on benchmarks and indirect clearing on CCPs

Collateral management technology vendors on blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (Premium)

Finadium: Collateral Management Technology Vendors in 2017: A Finadium Survey

Morgan Stanley buys 11.4% of Overstock.com – is a conversation about securities lending on the blockchain next? (Premium)