What we learned at yesterday’s securities finance event in Zurich (Premium)
That was really interesting. We held our fifth annual securities lending and repo update yesterday in Zurich. Discussion centered on SFTR and the evolution of the securities finance business in…
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Finadium launches new event in Frankfurt, The Business of Collateral Trading, for February 2019
Finadium is announcing a new event launch, The Business of Collateral Trading, 21 February 2019 in Frankfurt. This event is the result of our in-depth research and consulting activities in Europe…
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Finadium: 2018 Survey of Institutional Investors in Securities Finance
In Finadium’s 2018 survey of institutional investors in securities finance, respondents voiced strong support for securities lending, collateral management and repo. These markets are seen as low risk and they…
Read More Finadium report on Cryptojacking: A Growing Corporate Threat
Cryptojacking has grown from a nuisance to a threat, with over 2.9 million instances recorded in Q1 2018. For financial services firms, the ability of a hacker to not only…
Read More Finadium: The SOFR Transition: Benchmarks, Futures and P&L
This Finadium research report examines a number of aspects of the SOFR transition. SOFR is an overnight secured rate while LIBOR is an unsecured term rate. LIBOR, in the form…
Read More Get the weekly SFM update – our August 31 2018 newsletter is online
Headlines: FICC starts to see liftoff with money fund cleared repo; FISL NYC is coming to town; Sanction backfire, a non-US payment system would change the balance of financial power; …
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Save the Date: FISL NYC is May 2-3, 2019
Finadium Investors in Securities Lending (FISL) Conference May 2-3, 2019 New York City Save the Date Finadium has announced our next FISL NYC conference: May 2-3, 2019. Please reserve the…
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Read More Finadium Big Ideas Quarterly Q3 2018 now online
Our quarterly presentation on research, news and events. Finadium Securities Finance, Collateral and Derivatives subscription clients can log in and download the presentation here. If you are already logged in,…
Read More Finadium: Collateral Trading Platforms and Service Providers: A Finadium Survey
The collateral management services space has seen over a dozen new entrants join existing banks and technology companies in the last two years, who themselves have continued to adapt their…
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Finadium/DEGC repo breakfast recap: sharp insights on market structure, technology and future risks (Premium)
Finadium and DTCC-Euroclear GlobalCollateral (DEGC) held a repo breakfast update on Thursday, May 31 in New York. We were pleased to welcome 45 market participants across 27 dealer, buy-side and…
Read More Finadium: Is Frankfurt the Next Collateral and Liquidity Hub?
A new Finadium research report looks at Frankfurt as a financial center and some key aspects that may determine its competitiveness and future relevance post-Brexit and beyond. Does it have…
Read More Presentation: The Legitimacy of Cryptocurrencies and Internet Coin Offerings (Premium)
We recently delivered a presentation on the legitimacy of cryptocurrencies and Internet Coin Offerings both legally and in the popular imagination. This overview is useful for readers thinking about the…
Read More Finadium: Solving the Credit Risk Exposure Problem for the Buy-side in Securities Finance
Unlocking unutilized lender supply would change the landscape for both securities finance and capital markets in general, but finding new credit support structures that securities lenders will accept is a…
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Best practices for buy-side securities lending at FISL NYC and London – not just a good idea but important for revenues and risk management
Securities lending has strong legitimacy in capital markets as a revenue generating activity for clients, and for passive funds can make the difference between a top ranking and falling near…
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How many data fields are really needed by regulators to supervise Securities Financing Transactions?
It’s widely accepted that the 152 fields designated by the EU’s Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) is overkill. In fact, many of these fields don’t currently exist in participant computer…
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Finadium Survey: Better Regulation for Europe’s Securities Financing Transactions
European regulation of Securities Financing Transactions (SFTs) is having its desired effect, which is a near gold standard of risk management. Unfortunately, it’s at the cost of market vibrancy. A…
Read More Finadium welcomes Kurt Jarnagin as Senior Consultant in Frankfurt
Finadium is pleased to announce that Kurt Jarnagin has joined the firm as a Senior Consultant. Based in Frankfurt, Kurt has already begun work on Finadium research projects and consulting…
Read More Finadium: Evolution of the Total Return Swaps Market
In this report, we examine the current state of the Total Return Swaps (TRS) market through conversations with major market participants and a review of bank financial statements. Our conversations…
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Securities finance as an alpha generator on the buy-side? A FISL NYC and London afternoon session
Can hedge funds and asset managers generate meaningful alpha for their portfolios using securities finance? This is an important question for both the funds themselves and the professionals that work…
Read More Finadium: Smart Contract Vendors on Solving Problems in Capital Markets: A Finadium Survey
Smart contracts are a next phase of development in Distributed Ledger and blockchain technologies. They present an opportunity to automate currently manual processes and move algorithms that run on legacy…
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Agenda now online for Finadium Investors in Securities Lending Conference New York, April 11-12 2018
Finadium announces the agenda for its US Investors in Securities Lending (FISL) Conference, to be held in New York, April 11-12 2018. Our 2017 FISL events showed that a new…
Read More Finadium: Collateral Management Technology Vendors in 2017: A Finadium Survey
Finadium has conducted its fifth industry-wide survey of collateral management technology vendors, providing a comparative look at the development of this sector. The survey provides readers with a product summary…
Read More Finadium webinar replay and slides: Implementing Change in 2018 (Premium)
We delivered two client webinars today on implementing change in 2018. 2017 was a big year, with many moving parts in the collateralized trading markets across the business, regulation and…
Read More Finadium Report: Analysis from the US Rates & Repo 2017 Conference
Finadium has documented the questions and feedback from our November 1, 2017 Rates & Repo event in New York as a research report. The event drew 145 attendees, with 34%…
Read More Finadium: European Prime Brokerage Survey: Customers, Capital and Business Models
This Finadium research report is a survey of European prime brokers’ thinking towards capital and clients. We investigate how much prime brokers are aware of their balance sheet requirements and…
Read More Finadium Big Ideas Quarterly Q4 2017 now online
Our quarterly presentation on research, news and events. Finadium Securities Finance, Collateral and Derivatives subscription clients can log in and download the presentation here If you are already logged in,…
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Recap of Finadium’s Rates & Repo Conference 2017 in New York
We are pleased to report that our first Rates & Repo Conference, held last week in New York, was by all accounts a great success. We had 162 registrations by…
Read More Finadium: The Global Tri-party Services Market in 2017: A Finadium Survey
The global tri-party market size is US$4.65 trillion, up from US$4.3 trillion in 2014, according to a new survey from Finadium. Tri-party services continue to evolve by product and region,…
Read More Finadium: Legacy Systems in Capital Markets: Enhance, Augment or Replace?
This Finadium report looks at the current role of legacy systems in the capital markets infrastructure, strategies for managing them and opportunities for their replacement. This report should be read…
Read More Our slides from the Oct 3 London event, “Market Competition, Europe and US regulations” (Premium)
Thanks to our clients who attended our event in London this week on market regulations and their impact on competition between the US and Europe. Our slides are available for…
Read More Finadium: Central Bank Tapering: Impacts for Liquidity and Collateral Markets
Bank of England, Bank of Japan, Collateral Management, ECB, Federal Reserve, Investments, Liquidity Management
Central bank tapering season is on the horizon: this means opportunities for price volatility, spread movements between products, and exchange rate fluctuations. It also means a potentially new set of…
Read More Finadium: AI in Capital Markets: What Matters and What Doesn’t
The technology buyer in capital markets is getting inundated with marketing about the latest hot trend in fintech: Artificial Intelligence (AI). Still reeling from the blockchain onslaught of the last…
Read More Survey results: asset manager recommendations to peers on successful securities lending programs (Premium)
This article presents recommendations that asset managers have for their peers as beneficial owners in securities lending. The findings come from our 2017 survey of asset managers, covering 31 firms…
Read More Finadium Big Ideas Quarterly Q3 2017 now online
Our quarterly presentation on research, news and events. Finadium research clients can log in and download the presentation here
Read More Finadium’s strategic plan for 2017-2018
Financial markets are changing at a rapid pace; from front to back office and across products, anyone can see that today’s markets are not what they were 10 years ago.…
Read More Finadium: Survey of Leading Asset Managers on Securities Lending
This report presents the results of Finadium’s tenth annual survey of asset managers in securities lending. The report is a guide to best practices, a peer review and a forward-looking…
Read More Finadium: asset managers on the health of the securities lending market (Premium)
We are providing a preview of our annual survey of asset managers in the securities lending market, to be released next week. This section reports the opinions of 31 large…
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Are the buy side and sell side on the same page about the direction of prime brokerage?
BNY Mellon released the results of a buy-side survey on liquidity and financing on June 26th. How closely do the concerns and attitudes of investors towards their liquidity and financing…
Read More Finadium announces Rates & Repo Conference in NYC Nov 1
Rates & Repo is a new conference for cash investors and their service providers. We invite money funds, securities lending cash reinvestment desks, treasury departments and other cash investors to…
Read More Finadium US Prime Brokerage Survey: Customers, Capital and Business Models
It’s not the Wild West anymore; US prime brokerage has matured. Prime brokers still provide core critical services to the professional and institutional investment community that include market access, execution,…
Read More Slides from our webinar on Securities Finance Market Structure (Premium)
We delivered a webinar, Securities Finance Market Structure Trends, on June 13, 2017. Finadium clients can download the presentation below. Continue reading
Read More Finadium: Investor Questions in Securities Finance: Analysis from the FISL Conferences
In this report, we analyze 176 attendee questions and data from our Investors in Securities Lending events in April 2017 along with commentary from 40 investors who completed our feedback…
Read More Finadium report: The Challenge of Standardizing Collateral Schedules in OTC Derivatives
A push/pull situation between dealers, ISDA and the buy-side has reached a new crescendo in recent months as Basel Committee/IOSCO rules have forced a large-scale repapering of bilateral Credit Support…
Read More Fintech Focus: Integrating Innovation in Capital Markets
This Finadium research report analyzes the key questions being asked about innovation in financial markets today. We show what the challenges are for organizations new to innovation, and what strategies…
Read More The Finadium Guide to Measuring Performance in Investor Securities Lending Programs
This report is the result of Finadium’s monitoring and evaluation work in securities lending. We have boiled down the key elements of our methodology for securities lending analytics in a…
Read More How You Doin’? Attendee feedback from our FISL NYC event (Premium)
As you have likely now heard ad nauseum, we held our Finadium Investors in Securities Lending conference in New York last week. We’ve now received the first round of feedback…
Read More Finadium: Greenfield Opportunities in Securities Finance and Credit Businesses
This research report provides a review of four new technology-driven business opportunities in the market today. This is a how-to guide for business owners and project leaders, rather than a…
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US and European repo markets at the end of 2016: a regional analysis (Premium)
Using ICMA’s recent analysis of the European repo markets and our own February 2017 research paper on US repo market trends, we contrast market conditions at the end of 2016 to…
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