Analysis and Interviews

Brazil’s CBDC plan models how banks can maintain their balance sheets in a new era of money

ESMA says that UCITS fee splits in securities lending require more investigation and analysis

Interview: FIA Tech on building reference data into collateral optimization

ISLA conference: traditional lending shrinking as collateral business grows

For repo traders, recent commentary on FX volatility is worth a look

Finadium resources on DTCC’s NSCC SFT CCP

CBDC planning is heating up… but not yet in capital markets

ASIFMA: China inches forward on bond market reforms as defaults and Covid weigh

SFM Interview: Acadia’s Walsh on collateralizing a new cross-product operational reality

Lessons on buy-side seclending preferences from our live FISL 2022 receptions this month

Analysis of the Fed’s new primary dealer repo clearing venue data

SFM Interview: OSTTRA’s modeling its new repo service on IRD processing – what can the market expect?

SFM Interview: stablecoin collateral models in spotlight after crypto’s “Lehman” event

New competition in three areas of securities finance and collateral technology

Data sharing and the modernization of beneficial owner legal agreements in agency securities lending

SFM Interview: Causality Link on the ESG data mess and how explainable AI fits in

Finadium: US Repo Dealers, Rising Rates and Quantitative Tightening

Interview: ANNA on progress of tokenization and crypto standards

Repo to benefit from financing demand as Japanese investors deterred from buying US Treasuries

SFM Interview: Eurex Repo expands buy-side access as overall volumes boom

Key takeaways from day one of the Finadium Investors in Securities Lending 2022 Conference

Finadium NYC technology event in September: can crypto revenues justify securities industry investments?

FISL 2022: data demand casts wide net for repo, intraday and ESG in securities lending

FISL 2022: 10c-1 under the spotlight as seclending transparency gets formalized in US

SFM Interview: Provable Markets on interoperability in securities lending markets

Finadium Big Ideas Quarterly Q2 2022 now online

US indictments of Archegos underscore regulatory design flaws of Total Return Swaps

Our take on the Euroclear/Bloomberg/Sunthay guaranteed repo project

FISL 2022: beneficial owners can find opportunities in a changing prime brokerage landscape

Explainer: how the Fed’s ACAP is changing for repo and securities lending

Finadium launches US Treasury Repo Benchmarking

State Street/Finadium: Repo Execution and Pricing Models – A Case Study of Balance Sheet Constraints, Innovation and Client Preferences

FISL 2022: seclending opportunities abound across the book, but regulations loom large

RMA: seclending market change poses challenges to the pace of automation

What happens when everyone knows the total physical and synthetic short exposure against individual securities?

The ongoing disconnect of US bilateral DVP repo rates vs. triparty

Catalysts for Digital Adoption in Securities Finance and Repo

Why are securities lending and repo markets so hard for non-participants to understand?

SFM Interview: ISLA’s seclending performance measurement work nears finish line

Finadium: Corporate Actions Solutions for Securities Finance: A Finadium Survey

SFM Interview: what the S&P/IHS Markit data consolidation means for secfinance

The tokenization of repo is exciting but technology only gets halfway to the goal

SFM Interview: FIX-ing securities lending and repo for regulatory and data benefits

High stakes in the debate over CBDCs v stablecoins in DeFi

CCPs prepare to increase capital to meet the costs of market volatility

US regulators want uncleared bilateral repo data – here’s the best way to get it

Empty voting has overstayed its welcome in today’s securities lending industry

Euroclear creates triparty-bilateral settlement service for central bank collateral operations

SFM Interview: blockchain security expands for crypto and Central Bank Digital Currencies

What will it take for the buy-side to get serious about cross-collateral optimization?