Analysis and Interviews

Guaranteed Repo as regulatory arbitrage? Not at all, says Sunthay’s Rao

Pointed questions are growing about the impact of T+1 on collateral and funding markets

Why borrowers should post margin for lenders on the NSCC SFT CCP

Rates & Repo Europe: rapidly evolving market conditions will reshape competition

Interview: GLMX’s Havlicek on the need for an Asian hub

Interview: PASLA’s Howard on growing secfinance access in APAC

More on whether UST basis traders will really support the US Treasury market in 2024

Fed Quantitative Tightening means lower SOMA balances, which means opportunity for Treasury lenders

Takeaways from PASLA|RMA conference on Asian securities lending

Interview: Interactive Brokers’ Perez on securities lending market traction

Rates & Repo Europe Preview: Mandatory Clearing for UST Repo – Impact for Europe

Interview: Tokenbridge’s Ashurst on reconciling TradFi and DeFi for mutual funds

Are those Russian assets in your collateral basket?

Takeaways from our Synthetic Prime Brokerage webinar last week (and replay now live)

Rates & Repo Preview: Market Conditions in the UK and Europe

ISLA is expanding to the US with short-term opportunities to improve the market

Rates & Repo Europe Preview: Big Data, Big Technology, Big Opportunities

Securities finance results round-up for February 2024

Interview: Clearstream’s Sharma on the data granularity boom for fails management

Finadium: How Far Can the Marginal Buyer Take US Treasury Repo in 2024?

Agent lenders are setting up swaps desks – how will this work?

US Treasury Repo at Year End 2023: High Level Stability with Pockets of Volatility

Interview: Broadridge’s John on T+1 securities lending buildout for the buy-side

Nvidia swaps traders are timing the market to good effect

DLT in Securities Finance: building out defined use cases

Interview: Regis-TR’s Steimann warns on EMIR Refit prep as deadlines loom

Finadium Big Ideas Quarterly Q1 2024 now online

How regulators are thinking about leverage limits for non banks

Interview: Transcend’s Kadikar on global traction and the Citi investment

Connecting the SEC’s new UST dealer and mandatory clearing rules

Eurex’s MSCI Total Return Futures continue global product growth trends

Higher investor interest in hedge fund credit strategies may come with financing cost surprises

Interview: SSImple’s Meenaghan on the T+1 smart game

SA-CCR and Basel III Endgames: Implications for AIMs

Interview: “notification firehoses” prompt trading desktop overhauls

Clearstream GFF: a new openness to central clearing from both dealers and clients

The Raymond James/Velocity deal is more interesting than you might think

Repo clearing: the key to resource efficiency

Securities finance results round-up for January 2024

Interview: Redhedge’s Seminara on the basis trade opportunity and refinancing challenge

Guaranteed Repo – Excluded from the US Treasury Clearing Mandate – Is a More Efficient Alternative

EquiLend sale opens up a new era for product innovation in securities finance

Interview: LCH RepoClear SA’s Nin on collateral’s 2024 velocity

CFTC’s TAC meeting reveals AI-DeFi-cyber regulatory quagmire

Interview: FIA Tech on derivatives data analytics and “full speed ahead” for CDM in collateral

Finadium: Sizing the Collateral Management Services and Technology Market

Using CME futures and OIS to forecast Fed interest rates

Eurex Repo: “Paving the way for new paradigms”

Fed’s Waller on pace of interest rate cuts and draining the balance sheet

Financial Bite: Projecting European repo levels and volumes for 2024