Posts by Richard Stinchfield

Changes to US H-1B visa program for tech workers will impact banks, technology firms

How worried should we be about re-hypothecation? Notes on the FSB’s recent report and recommendations

Would brokers move back into prop trading without Dodd-Frank? (Premium)

Is a lack of blockchain expertise really a limiting factor in adoption of the technology? Probably not.

Four emerging tech trends to watch in capital markets (Premium)

Our analysis on whether best execution for securities finance is covered under MiFID II (Premium)

Blockchain as a workflow tool: lessons from Trade Finance and applications for securities finance

Get ready for the next financial services tech boom

Cyber security, smart contracts, and the golden copy

US elections offer lessons on systemic risk and interconnected markets

Notes from the field: the increased challenge of consensus management at today's financial institutions

T+2 settlement and the US securities finance market: impacts on operations and the business (Premium)

Under bank capital rules a reduction in US Federal deficit would spell serious trouble

Can a blockchain be a CCP? One company says yes but may be missing a critical point (Premium)

Do CCPs increase dealer capacity? Sometimes but not always (Premium)

The technical details on how direct/peer-to-peer borrowing increases US customer trading leverage (Premium)

Brainard's speech the last word on next Fed move?

Fed's Lacker reinforces view that there are strong technical pressures to raise US interest rates

Blockchain news: R3 gains new support for its standards; Visa and true digital securities could signal real disruption to SWIFT

Will peer lending and borrowing change equity collateral use in the US? (Premium)

Should CCP default reserves be funded by debt or securitization?

Brexit reaction by Bank of England brings UK in closer alignment to Europe but not in a good way

US Treasury securities lending spreads around Brexit show systemic risks in action (Premium)

Bad debt at European banks a blink test of capital rules and the resolve of governments (Premium)

A US Financial Transactions Tax? Seriously? Another round of legislation has been introduced in Congress (Premium)

Measuring risk in the sovereign debt market: A Fed paper balances idealism vs. practicality

How resilient will assets trading in blockchain networks be in a stressed market?

Redeploying brokerage infrastructure for Direct securities finance transactions (Premium)

The bank enterprise model is driving securities finance technology vendor consolidation (Premium)

The Fed's Fischer on G-SIB resolutions and its critics (Premium)

Where is FIS in the current wave of securities finance vendor activity? (Premium)

MiFID II and MiFIR give teeth to long standing regulatory concerns over securities finance (Premium)

SETL's OpenCSD – are private blockchain CSDs a good idea? (Premium)

Fully Paid Lending utilization at US retail brokers shows room to grow (Premium)

Fed researchers publish "bailout barometer"

Lending Club probe a big warning to ABS investors (Premium)

What are the Fed’s rules on stays in defaults really trying to accomplish?

Ten years of Agency Lending Disclosure – how ALD prepped the industry for post crisis regulation (Premium)

Concerns over ABS ratings in peer to peer lending reveal some pretty shadowy banking (Premium)

Securities finance in the press – perspectives from reporters covering the industry (Premium)

In blockchain for repo initiative, DTCC goes head-to-head against Fedwire securities settlement services (Premium)

The new roles of big and small technology vendors in the enterprise model of securities finance

Japan joins the negative deposit rate club

Finadium blockchain panelists represent different perspectives on the future (Premium)

Mid-tier banks are facing unique challenges in securities finance technology and business models

What would blockchain mean for “cash” and “credit” in funding? (Premium)

SEC finding on Goldman Sachs’ Reg SHO locates highlights process and procedure gaps

The German Maple tax probe: what happened and lessons for the future (Premium)

The biggest change in US securities lending in the last twenty years

The Robo Advisor is starting to matter to securities finance (Premium)