Securities Lending

Filings show US ’40 Act funds making more money in securities lending but lagging other beneficial owners

Total Return Futures: Regional Growth and Financing Replacement Opportunities

The language of indemnification on CCPs for repo and securities finance buy-side clearing could offer a path to market improvements

Interview: TMX Group’s Kevin Sampson on Canada’s new collateral service

SFM Interview: S&P’s Kabin George on advancing seclending performance benchmarks

The Basel III endgame in Europe and the challenge of indemnification for securities lending

FIS technology platform for securities finance is making noise on the street

Interview: Euroclear’s Grauls on a new “pledge back” funding structure

Interview: South Africa’s Absa on equities dynamism and repo rollback

Takeaways from the Finadium Investors in Securities Lending 2023 conference

Hazeltree steps on S3 turf with monthly shortside report

SFM Interview: FIX developments for securities lending and repo – T+1 and end-to-end automation

FISL Preview: seclending clearing model like “DMA for beneficial owners”

FISL Preview: building out securities finance technology for long-term success

STP and post-trade in securities lending for client revenue generation: a case study at Fidelity Agency Lending®

FISL Preview: optimization demands across market players and products reveal changing dynamics

SFM Interview: SSImple’s Meenaghan on automating SSI management

FISL Preview: agent lenders and beneficial owners mull regulatory costs to capture seclending value

Finadium Big Ideas Quarterly Q2 2023 now online

FISL Preview: buy-side weighs liquidity alternatives amid record seclending revenues

Hedge fund sentiment in the US TRS market shows short bias and short-termism

We review ISLA’s paper on tokenization for securities finance

A FISL proposal: new securities lending structures needed for US ’40 Act funds, ERISA plans and UCITS funds

FISL preview: legal experts flag how banking stress could add to pile of regulations impacting secfinance

Securities finance market conditions in April: cautiously optimistic after March volatility

Interview: LRH’s Comotto on where SFT data is going

Buy-side reading packet for the Finadium Investors in Securities Lending conference, May 17-18, NYC

Can ChatGPT be used to analyze securities financing markets?

Is Credit Suisse’s new financing round enough to change market opinion on the safety of the bank as counterparty?

Finadium: Liquidity at Stake: Analysis of the Mandatory Clearing Proposal for US Treasury Repo

Is the UK short selling proposal on public disclosures fit for purpose?

Indemnification is appreciated, but does it cause more harm than good for beneficial owners?

SFM Interview: HSBC’s Lebrun on prime brokerage global expansion

Interview: EquiLend’s Allen on new datasets and tech

SFM Interview: Wematch on its secfinance growth and future agenda

Most hedge funds nailed Friday’s US equity market downturn – TRS data showed the move before the open

SFM Interview: Clear Street’s Volz on how fundraising will fuel expansion

Accelerated settlement debate spills across Europe after the US/Canada and India

Creating indices of TRS transactions on the fly for index forecasting

Finadium releases daily US OTC equity swaps data, boosting market transparency

Broadridge’s Pandiri on what the global tech survey means for secfinance

Finadium offers public webinar for students and new professionals on the collateralized trading markets

Finadium Big Ideas Quarterly Q1 2023 now online

SFM Interview: Opensee on data and tech trends for secfinance

A mandate to clear US Treasury securities loans along with UST repo would upend industry dynamics

Some agent lenders and some repo dealers are converging in their service offerings for clients

Tracking correlations between Total Return Swaps trades and cash equity price movements

Interview: J.P. Morgan’s Paramanathan on EAD benefits to agent lenders from Basel III endgame

Interview: FINOS on what’s next for CDM and open source trends

SFM’s top stories in 2022 – a look back at the year’s big trends by the numbers