Analysis and Interviews

SFM Interview: SocGen on the DeFi future of bond refinancing

The value of dissent: Peirce at the SEC and Brainard at the Fed

SFDR funds and secured financing: fundamentally compatible

SFM Interview: Capstone’s treasurer Lupea on regulation, market disruption and ESG

ISDA looks to ramp up secfinance and repo expertise

Common Domain Models: Going Beyond Taxonomies

Bank custodians lead service providers for bitcoin ETFs, including new US launches

ESG Collateral Management and Trading: Preparing Today for Tomorrow’s Requirements

ISLA AGM & SFF: securities lending market takes stock of opportunities amid uncertainty

SFM Interview: Quant Insight on institutional analytics trends and rise of retail

Finadium: Building Out Repo Data for New Industry Needs (free from DTCC)

Finadium: Short-sale Transparency Challenges and Solutions

What’s happening with Tether’s collateral?

Thursday news roundup: China and QE; repo clearing mandates; SA-CCR; in memoriam Jim Malgieri

SFM Interview: ISSA on how the pandemic is changing post-trade operations

Regulations open door for crypto as HQLA collateral

Analysis of the SEC’s proxy voting rule proposal for securities finance professionals

How to refill the securities finance and collateral hiring pool, now at its lowest level ever

SFM Interview: ION’s Margini on Clarus acquisition as automation and data play

UK’s incoming NSI rules could hit new and legacy fintech acquisitions

Blockchain Collateral Trading Platforms

Funding market responses to a possible US debt ceiling default

More definitions of green repo emerge with market development

SFM Interview: Fireblocks on how banks are setting up digital infrastructures

SFM Interview: State Street’s Ahlner on the new triparty agent and connecting the data

Securities finance could solve a proposed ETF in-kind redemption taxation issue

Bank of England’s Andrew Hauser on principles for central bank intervention

Blockchain collateral trading, settlement or both? What we learned at yesterday’s webinar

Asset managers using AI and ML need to determine chain of command

Who is trading on Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo platform

Finadium: Securities Finance at the Gates of Crypto

SFM Interview: BNY Mellon’s GMI unveils open, multi-provider tech strategy

State Street acquisition of BBH changes the agency lending landscape

Fed tri-party repo reporting, while accurate enough, needs an upgrade to keep pace with market structure

Beware of crypto companies using the language of securities finance

Without payment for order flow, expect more institutional market making desks

SFM Interview: DSB unveils regulation and tech strategies ahead of UPI launch

Finadium is looking for a Research Analyst to join our team

Should bond holders care if financing trades are made as securities loans or repo?

Retail brokerage impacts on the hard to borrow securities lending market

SFM Interview: Mediolanum’s CIO on overhauling IT and future tech

SFM Interview: fintech’s modern data structures for traditional asset servicing

What we learned from DTCC’s filings to launch their equity finance CCP

Finadium announces client webinar on blockchain collateral trading platforms, asks “what is this all about?”

Will a Fed taper help with the collateral shortage?

Which US fund companies are making money in securities lending, and why

SFM Interview: CogniFrame on “derisking” adoption of financial quantum

SFM Interview: Fed is borrower of first resort as overnight repo balances surge

Finadium: Best Practices in US Fully Paid Securities Lending

LCH and Eurex look to sponsored repo for the right reasons