Analysis and Interviews

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

Creating indices of TRS transactions on the fly for index forecasting

Back to the US SLR for US Treasuries

Repo CCPs help but are no panacea for volatile market conditions

Asset servicing feeling the heat over blockchain RoI

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

SFM Interview: VERMEG’s Ben Abdeljelil on ECMS progress

Finadium: Hedge Fund Approaches to Treasury Management Systems

UK accepts possible bank disintermediation with digital pound

Cybertech: third-party cyber hygiene in the spotlight for financial services

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

Where did the end of year US term repo go?

A key takeaway from GFF on collateral optimization

Experts: wholesale cross-border markets are best candidate for CBDC + DLT

Finadium Big Ideas Quarterly Q1 2023 now online

SFM Interview: Opensee on data and tech trends for secfinance

How many bank stablecoins will the world need?

We size the global collateral markets at $25.5 trillion, up from $19.8 trillion in 2019

SFM Interview: Causality Link on what ChatGPT means for financial markets

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

Planning for European collateral scarcity in 2023: Eurex and Clearstream on what you should know before GFF

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

SFM Interview: Bloomberg on localizing the global repo market

SFM Interview: EIB’s Xavier Leroy on issuing bonds on the blockchain

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

Registration now live: Rates & Repo Europe 2023, London, 29 March

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

Finadium: US Repo Conditions and Market Structure in 2023

Buy-side collateral self-sufficiency to speed up in 2023

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

The outlook for BBH agency securities lending as an independent business

SFM Interview: ICMA’s Jarratt on capital market priorities for fintech

SFM Interview: ETS’ Danesh on building a utility model for market tech and governance

The private benefits of repo CCPs are proven, but what about the public benefits?

SFM Interview: SocGen’s Marochini on digitalized markets progress

Interview: Sharegain’s Halperin on new blood in seclending

Could HQLA^X‘s solution have helped ease market and operational disruptions during the recent UK Gilt volatility?

SFM Interviews: US year-end repo market signals and Fed forecasting

Finadium: Agent Lender Survey 2022

Zurich Secfinance and Repo Roundtable – notes and our slides

SFM Interview: reusing collateral has a trade-off in QE-fueled repo markets, what about QT?

Eurex Repo: GC Pooling stepping up again as central banks pulling out

SFM Interview: Vantage’s UK CEO on the move from retail to institutional

Assessing climate risk on bank balance sheets is no easy matter

Financial Bite: Building out the layers of repo electronification with Tradeweb

We’re taking DeFi seriously

LCH RepoClear: Reducing Uncertainty and Counterparty Risk in Volatile Market Conditions

Interview: GLEIF advances tech and woos global partners to boost LEI adoption