Analysis and Interviews

If brokers move their business to fintech firms, FINRA may not have oversight. Is this a good thing?

The ECB on repo in the Leverage Ratio: taking a strong stand today may not turn out well tomorrow

Introducing the Semantic Blockchain in Capital Markets

It’s go time for signing stay resolution agreements in securities finance (Premium)

Electronic RFQ Markets: What’s in it for Dealers?

The SEC’s proposed ETF rules help ETF market makers but hurt securities lenders (Premium)

Stock loan lawsuit update: Judge allows suit to proceed; we review the ruling (Premium)

Regulatory Changes and the Need for Collateral Flexibility

How the Basel change on settled-to-market will impact balance sheets (Premium)

A Framework for Evaluating and Prioritizing Automation Projects

Finadium: Does Crypto Really Matter to the Traditional Securities Industry?

European regulatory reporting for a global audience

Stablecoins could be the link between crypto and securities finance

Envisioning the next evolution of the securities finance industry

SFM Magazine, Fall 2018, is now online

Analysis of DTCC’s plans to launch a securities lending CCP (Premium)

Europe is first to SFTR but won’t be last: expectations on the global rise of SFT reporting rules

Rates & Repo NYC Nov 5 2018: first 40 registrations; first speakers announced; keynote presenter

Ten years after Lehman, another crisis is in the making (Premium)

Direct Clearing: A New Competitive Differentiator for the Buy-side

Finadium: Next Steps for Agency Securities Lending, Or, Life After SFTR

Treating Collateral Trading as a Business: Natixis’s Test Case

What will jump start Asian corporate bond repo markets? (Premium)

Rebuilding tri-party repo for an open architecture model

FICC starts to see liftoff with money fund cleared repo (Premium)

Save the Date: FISL NYC is May 2-3, 2019

Sanction backfire: a non-US payment system would change the balance of financial power

Finadium: Quantum Computing: Moon Shot or the Next Big Thing?

Should the US care if global markets move away from dollars for transactions?

Blockchain for securities lending is a great idea with a big problem (Premium)

A US GDPR proposal is on the table

Defining “strong regulation” for safe banks

Testing the correlation between SOFR and US Treasury rates (Premium)

Finadium: CCPs, Liquidity and Regulatory Disputes on Systemic Risk

How can central banks effectively monitor transmission of monetary policy?

What no-fee fund products mean for the securities lending market

US short-term rates have no upper bound, and that’s an [opportunity] [problem] (Premium)

US Treasury fintech report: four impacts to securities finance

Finadium Big Ideas Quarterly Q3 2018 now online

European roundup: some weighty news for the end of July (Premium)

We review the DTCC/Field Effect white paper on SFTR

Crypto is mimicking securities finance business models but with vastly different technology

The SFTR win for firms that don’t trade with European counterparties

More on handicapping the odds of a repo carve out for the US Leverage Ratio

US House passes financial services reform – here’s what matters to capital markets (Premium)

ARRC on a fast pace to transition markets to SOFR (Premium)

The ECB swings a big stick on supervision of repo CCPs

SEC panelists: MiFID II not useful for credit markets yet and likely to get more complex (Premium)

Finadium: a deep dive on crypto custody

US Treasury Markets Practice Group sees clearing and IDB risks in the US Treasury secondary market