Regulatory

SFM Interview: Stanford’s Duffie on US treasury clearing progress, repo data and SRF

SFM Interview: SocGen on the DeFi future of bond refinancing

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

SFM Interview: Capstone’s treasurer Lupea on regulation, market disruption and ESG

Bank custodians lead service providers for bitcoin ETFs, including new US launches

ISLA AGM & SFF: securities lending market takes stock of opportunities amid uncertainty

Finadium: Short-sale Transparency Challenges and Solutions

What’s happening with Tether’s collateral?

SFM Interview: ISSA on how the pandemic is changing post-trade operations

Regulations open door for crypto as HQLA collateral

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

UK’s incoming NSI rules could hit new and legacy fintech acquisitions

Funding market responses to a possible US debt ceiling default

SFM Interview: Fireblocks on how banks are setting up digital infrastructures

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

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

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

SFM Interview: DSB unveils regulation and tech strategies ahead of UPI launch

Will a Fed taper help with the collateral shortage?

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

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

Central bank interventions and rising stock values are a bad combination

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

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

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

Analysis: US FINRA’s proposed short selling reporting would lead to market structure change (Premium)

Could Europe’s style of SFTR transparency help US regulators in securities lending? (Premium)

Can the Fed avoid negative US rates while not popping asset bubbles?

SOFR could fall to 0 bps this month – don’t let the rounding fool you (Premium)

Was it fair for Sen. Elizabeth Warren to call for firing of Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Quarles over Archegos losses? (Premium)

Key takeaways from the Fed and ECB financial stability reports in May 2021 (Premium)

Regulators talk about leverage oversight, but where’s the action? (Premium)

Five easy things the SEC can do to improve US fund transparency in securities lending

Regulators are getting serious about data standardization too (Premium)

Notes from Janet Yellen’s first FSOC meeting as Chair (Premium)

Thursday idea roundup: digitization and settlement; Fed paper on UST market making; the value of clearing, and more (Premium)

SFM Interview: corporate actions overhaul has knock-on effects for securities finance (Premium)

Will the Fed’s removal of SLR relief matter that much? (Premium)

ISLA Post-trade Conference: securities lending negotiates new markets, products and tech, CSDR looms large (Premium)

Negative US Treasury DVP repo poses marketing challenge to SOFR (Premium)

SFM Interview: building repo and TRS into a UCITS wrapper for alternative funds (Premium)

Negative US repo rates all but demand a Federal Reserve response

Repo market opinions on the Fed moving IOER or changing term repo rates (Premium)

SFM Interview: what’s happening with data standards for institutional crypto (Premium)

Hong Kong’s stamp tax increase proposal offers FTT lessons to Europe and the US (Premium)

DTCC sets out T+1 proposal as accelerated clearing gains momentum in US

SFM Interview: markets and regulators weigh data flow options as UPI integration looms (Premium)

First hearing on GameStop yields insights on margin and settlement rules (Premium)

SFM Interview: banks and regulators see expanding roles as LEI adoption grows (Premium)

ECB steps in front of the climate change/monetary policy debate