Market infrastructure

Automation, Big Data, CCP, Collateral Management, Market infrastructure, Regulatory, Repo, Securities Lending, SFTR

Canada, collateral management, fully paid lending, Market infrastructure, Prime Brokerage, Securities Lending, SFTR, topstory

Securities Finance Monitor Magazine, Spring 2019, is now online. This edition features articles on fully paid lending, Canadian banks in the global prime brokerage market, market data in securities finance,…

Reuters: CBOE exchange turns to machines to police VIX

September 20, 2018

Anna Reitman

News and Notes – Fintech

artificial intelligence, CBOE, machine learning, Market infrastructure, Volmageddon

Hard pressed to quash allegations that its popular “fear gauge” is being manipulated, Cboe Global Markets is turning to artificial intelligence to help put those concerns to rest. In its…

Australia’s exchange tech overhaul reveals a huge governance gap

September 20, 2018

Anna Reitman

Technology

ASIC, ASX, exchanges, Market infrastructure, risk management

In September 2016, ASX (Australian Securities Exchange) Group experienced a major trading system outage that impacted the country’s entire equities market due to a hardware failure. The incident drew the…

Bank of England discussion paper: Building the UK financial sector’s operational resilience

July 5, 2018

Bank of England, Market infrastructure, operational resilience

News and Notes

The Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have published a joint discussion paper (DP) on an approach to improve the operational resilience of firms…

Citi’s investment in Axoni shows that blockchain can be much more than settlement

May 17, 2017

Blockchain, Market infrastructure, Operations

Axoni, blockchain, Citi, distributed ledger technology, Equity Swaps, Market infrastructure, topstory

In our December 2016 report on Practical Applications of Blockchain in Settlements and Securities Finance, we projected that the technology would make its most immediate impacts in non-settlement related arenas.…

Highlights and takeaways from the Finadium 2017 Industry Conference (Premium)

March 22, 2017

Collateral Management, Market infrastructure, Regulatory, Repo, Securities Lending, Technology, US

buy-side, collateral, Finadium Conference, Market infrastructure, Repo, Securities Lending, technology, topstory

Finadium held its annual industry conference yesterday in New York and it may have been the best one yet. The panels were rock solid with valuable content and audience participation…

What we learned last week at Collateral Utilities – London (Premium)

October 11, 2016

Collateral Management, Market infrastructure

collateral utilities, Market infrastructure, topstory

We were pleased to welcome clients and friends to a London event last week on Collateral Utilities: Where Are They Heading. The event was held at Canary Wharf and was…

ECB speech at SIBOS: The next steps in the evolution of the Eurosystem’s market infrastructure

September 26, 2016

News and Notes

ECB, Europe, Market infrastructure

Opening remarks by Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Eurosystem community session at Sibos, Geneva, 26 September 2016 Introduction One year ago, the Eurosystem shared some…

Bank of England's Hauser: user demand, technology and regulation key drivers of evolution for UK securities infrastructure

September 21, 2016

Bank of England, Blockchain, Market infrastructure, Settlements

Andrew Hauser, Bank of England, blockchain, distributed ledger technology, Market infrastructure, topstory

We provide highlights from Building the market infrastructure of tomorrow: CREST, RTGS and the Bank of England, 20 years on, a speech given by Andrew Hauser, Executive Director, Banking, Payments…

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

July 12, 2016

Bitcoin, Blockchain, Market infrastructure, Systemic Risk

bitcoin, blockchain, Market infrastructure, topstory, volatility

As financial services transactions inch ever closer to widespread blockchain-based trading and settlement, a number of important questions arise. Some of the macro questions were outlined in the 4th edition of Securities Finance…

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

May 3, 2016

Dodd-Frank, Market infrastructure, Regulatory, Risk Management, SEC, Securities Lending, Systemic Risk, Technology, Trade Repositories, US

agency lending, agency lending disclosure, Market infrastructure, Regulation, topstory

It started as a low murmur of vague unease and confusion, and soon erupted into a 36 month panic. In 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) served notice to…

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

March 22, 2016

Bitcoin, Blockchain, Market infrastructure, Technology

blockchain, Finadium Conference, Market infrastructure, technology, topstory

The Finadium 2016 Conference closed with a great panel discussion on the subject of blockchain networks in financial services. The panel featured representatives from leading players: Digital Asset Holdings, itBit…

Finadium announces June events on clearing for repo and funding; T2S, Collateral and Liquidity

April 29, 2015

CCP, Collateral Management, Europe, Liquidity Management, Repo, US

CCPs, Clearing, Clearstream, collateral management, Finadium, Frankfurt, Global Collateral Ltd, Liquidity, London, Market infrastructure, New York, OCC, Paris, Repo, T2S, topstory

Finadium is pleased to announce four events coming up in June. We’re coming to New York, Frankfurt, London and Paris, with compelling programs on new and innovative topics in securities…

Finadium: Central Securities Depositories and the Evolution of Collateral Management

April 9, 2015

Collateral Management, Market infrastructure

Central Securities Depositories, collateral management, CSDs, Finadium, Market infrastructure, topstory

Collateral Management, Market infrastructure, Technology

Finadium has released a new survey of Central Securities Depositories (CSD) in collateral management. This survey details the offerings and functionalities of CSDs in the collateral space as well as…

Sharing Collateral Infrastructure: A Best Case Scenario for Users

October 14, 2014

mstan

collateral management, Market infrastructure, technology, topstory

The collateral management infrastructure market is evolving at a rapid pace, with new ideas emerging on a regular basis for how banks, insurance companies and fund managers can solve some…

SIBOS panel on the future of market infrastructure (Premium Content)

October 1, 2014

Collateral Management, Market infrastructure

collateral management, Market infrastructure, topstory