Analysis and Interviews

Thursday idea roundup: digitization and settlement; Fed paper on UST market making; the value of clearing, and more (Premium)

SFM Interview: corporate actions overhaul has knock-on effects for securities finance (Premium)

Will the Fed’s removal of SLR relief matter that much? (Premium)

US House GameStop II hearing shows misunderstandings about securities lending but a few decent ideas anyhow

Everyone’s talking about product convergence but may not mean the same thing (Premium)

ISLA Post-trade Conference: securities lending negotiates new markets, products and tech, CSDR looms large (Premium)

Does securities lending “promote” sustainable goals under Europe’s SFDR? (Premium)

Negative US Treasury DVP repo poses marketing challenge to SOFR (Premium)

Overcoming Obstacles to European Dealer to Client Repo for the Buy-side

SFM Interview: building repo and TRS into a UCITS wrapper for alternative funds (Premium)

Finadium: Global Tri-party survey shows assets at $6.15 trillion, broad increase in pledge demand

Take a break with these three fun music videos on inflation and finance

Negative US repo rates all but demand a Federal Reserve response

Repo market opinions on the Fed moving IOER or changing term repo rates (Premium)

SFM Interview: what’s happening with data standards for institutional crypto (Premium)

An inside look at Schwab’s ONE BOX securities lending initiative (Premium)

Growth patterns in the Continental European cleared repo market (Premium)

Hong Kong’s stamp tax increase proposal offers FTT lessons to Europe and the US (Premium)

DTCC sets out T+1 proposal as accelerated clearing gains momentum in US

SFM Interview: markets and regulators weigh data flow options as UPI integration looms (Premium)

The contribution of securities lending to US repo volumes and SOFR integrity

First hearing on GameStop yields insights on margin and settlement rules (Premium)

US mutual funds’ low non-cash collateral use sparks concerns on competitiveness (Premium)

SFM Interview: banks and regulators see expanding roles as LEI adoption grows (Premium)

Can prime brokerage financing work without credit intermediation? (Premium)

ECB steps in front of the climate change/monetary policy debate

Review of the Financial Transaction Tax proposals from New Jersey and New York

SFM Interview: what’s behind the volume spike in seclending clearing? (Premium)

Finadium: Repo and CCP Client Clearing

Interview: Eurex to close Lending CCP as buy-side repo growth accelerates (Premium)

SFM Interview: Broadridge on the value of becoming an NSCC SFT Submitter (Premium)

SFT professionals and the push for central clearing in 2021 (Premium)

Finadium Big Ideas Quarterly Q1 2021 now online

SFM Interview: settlement data’s become the “last frontier” of fixed income analytics AI (Premium)

The role of short selling and securities lending in supporting market efficiency, liquidity and economic growth

Six early impacts of the “GameStop effect” for securities finance (Premium)

Analysis of the Basel consultation on minimum haircut floors for SFTs (Premium)

FICC Sponsored Repo in 2021: Product Development and Market Structure

Interview: evolving views on margin risks, collateral and tech post-pandemic

What happens to securities finance client conferences post COVID-19? (Premium)

Securities finance should support central bank debt forgiveness plans

Building the Revenue Opportunity from Front-to-Back Collateral Technology

Financial Bite: Georgetown’s Jim Angel on the Biden administration’s priorities for the Securities and Exchange Commission

SFM Interview: what does the SolarWinds attack mean for financial services? (Premium)

What US repo can expect from a Gary Gensler SEC (Premium)

Finadium releases UK SFTR analytics

SIX Repo on the SNB’s US dollar swap lines and SIX repo activity (Premium)

Finadium: International Access to China’s Securities Finance and Collateral Markets

SFM Interview: genesis on the rise of “low code” in trading and clearing tech (Premium)

Calls grow to revise global bank regulations, but revise what exactly? (Premium)