Collateral Management

The no-spread treasury trade in securities lending

"Collateral Crises": a new research paper examines the impact of small shocks that create big problems

More on collateral upgrades and collateral mismatch

US plan sponsors look to alternative repo – SLT

EU may allow European asset-backed securities to be included as liquid assets for the liquidity coverage ratio. France & Germany push for delay to 2018, much to the chagrin of the UK.

Is the collateral upgrade trade a red herring?

Nine takeaways from the Clearstream Global Securities Financing conference regulatory panel

Lombard up, Algorithmics down in collateral management IT

When every bps counts, securities lending and collateral management take on a new meaning

Now everyone is a repo trader

Has MF Global Revealed a Fatal Flaw in CCP Margin Procedures? An Analysis of MF Global’s Margin Failure

A Serious Conversation About Sovereigns Posting Collateral, At Last

Financial taxes, seclending and haircuts in the repo market

The Latest on ETFs, Securities Lending and Collateral

What Too Big to Fail Means in the Tri-party Repo Market

Repo in 2012: high quality paper scarce, risker paper increasingly harder to fund

Successful strategies for collateral management in the age of CCPs: report

FT Alphaville: One man’s haircut is another man’s unsecured risk

Satyajit Das, author ‘Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk’ talks to the FT on CCPs

Lombard Risk gets good press – look for others in the collateral management space as well

Do corporate bonds make good collateral?

Misguided conclusions: Moody's, AIG and risk in securities lending

Fed: Remaining Risks in the Tri-Party Repo Market

On AIG, paper losses and why make a return to securities lending

How was MF Global able to leverage themselves so much? The answer lies in the repo market.

Disclosure in ETF collateral holdings: the battle heats up

Derivsource: Collateral Transformation, Silver Bullet or Smoke and Mirrors?

FT: Bank collateral drying up in rush for security

UK regulators scrutinizing collateral upgrade trades

Great blog post on Finextra: collateral management and systematic risk

CME's Donahoe: more collateral upgrades needed for OTC derivatives

BlackRock to publish collateral holdings on ETF securities loans

Comments from SIBOS: DTCC's Bodson says CCPs not necessarily safer for OTC clearing

Finadium conference highlights

CCP interoperability will not resolve fragmentation in the OTC markets, say panelists at ISDA Europe conference in London

Industry Prepares for Buy-Side Clearing

Accenture/Clearstream report on collateral management – 4 bn Euros in savings?

If SocGen sells Securities Services, who benefits?

"Margin Call", the movie is coming in October! Popcorn anyone?

SunGard posts ten trends in securities finance

Shadow banking inquiries = transparency in seclending?

SEC Seeks Public Comment on Use of Derivatives by Mutual Funds and Other Investment Companies

SWIFT white paper on liquidity risk management

Unlike Banks, This Wall St. Group Embraces Dodd-Frank – NYT

Survey says custodians' relationship management increasingly important – Asset Servicing Times

Collateral upgrade boom or bust?