The New Special: The Rise of SPACs & Meme Stocks
The rise of SPACs and meme stocks has brought new attention to financial markets. Matt Ross, DataLend Product Specialist surveys the financial landscape with these new instruments.
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CSDR Client Concerns: Part 2
In part 2 of our CSDR concerns series, we’re focused on the impact of the regulation on Standard Settlement Instructions and repository and how Settlement Monitor has saved thousands of pounds in CSDR fines for clients.
EquiLend Launches Bespoke ESG Data Analysis and Validation Service
EquiLend has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG) data analysis and validation service for securities finance market participants.
Settlement Monitor: The Silver Bullet for CSDR
Where EquiLend Exposure reduces settlement costs associated with failing trades, the tie-in with Settlement Monitor, the newest release from EquiLend, eliminates them.
EquiLend Trading Records Signal Growth in Electronic Trading in Securities Lending
EquiLend Trading Records Signal Growth in Electronic Trading in Securities Lending
CSDR Client Concerns: Part 1
EquiLend surveyed our community of clients to better understand their concerns for the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR). In part one of our 5-part series, we’ll focus on the importance of pre-matching and the impact on returns introduced by CSDR.
Here’s where I stand on talent and our workforce
Management Insight Here’s where I stand on talent and our workforce Brian Lamb DEC 2021 Without meaning to state the obvious, we are in new territory when it comes to talent and the workforce. These issues have always been important for executives, but the seismic changes to the working world brought about by the pandemic […]
CSDR: Solutions in Technology
CSDR is finally scheduled for implementation in February 2022, yet despite the delays, the requirement to prepare effectively for CSDR is no less for the uncertainty surrounding it.
Global Custodian Fireside Friday with Brian Lamb
Global Custodian Editor Jonathan Watkins recently interviewed EquiLend CEO Brian Lamb about EquiLend’s 20 years of innovation in the securities finance industry.
Embracing ESG principles in securities finance
The current spike in interest reflects investors’ growing expectations that their capital be used to make the world a better place.
Making digital transformation more than a buzzword through the lens of a technologist
Management Insight Making digital transformation more than a buzzword through the lens of a technologist Ken DeGiglio Sep 2021 As the era of digital transformation continues to revolutionize every industry from healthcare to banking, the impacts on niche market sectors like securities finance can be harder to parse–but just as transformative. What are the key […]
Working better together: EquiLend’s 100-day return plan
Like many fellow chief executives and business leaders, my daily to-do list has recently been dominated by one key area of decision making
Actions speak louder than words in diversity and inclusion
The social and political disruption of 2020 ignited a dialogue around pervasive racial and gender-based inequities.
New Year, Continued Innovation
In 2021, I believe the pace of technical innovation in the securities finance industry will accelerate immeasurably.
Effectively Managing Collateral With EquiLend Exposure
Recent market volatility has placed increased focus on collateral management and the ability to manage your trading exposures quickly, accurately and efficiently. Our range of connected technology solutions throughout the trade lifecycle help to solve this.
EquiLend SFTR: The System Behind the Solution
SFTR is the single most comprehensive piece of legislation which the securities finance market
has ever been subjected to, ahead of the legislative agenda driving the future introduction of CSDR.
Latin America Securities Finance Market User Guide 2020
EquiLend and The Risk Management Association (RMA) have joined forces with domestic and international market participants active in Latin America to produce the second annual Latin America Securities Finance User Guide.
Distance Working: The Opportunity to Rebuild
As the coronavirus pandemic swept across the globe, the collective workforce went home, forcing some industries to come to a standstill. Businesses crucial for enabling liquidity, however, continued largely uninterrupted. The finance industry quickly reoriented business practices and has embraced the opportunities to shape the future of our industry.
Remote & Rearranged: Securities Finance and The Future
Amidst the dust that settles from COVID-19-instigated market volatility emerges a finance industry seeking to evolve into its new business scenescape. The public health response demanded of COVID-19 forced a wide spectrum of business practice changes so to enable a social distancing-confined world.
The Economics of a Recovery: Futureproofing Securities Lending for Turbulent Times
As the sudden, substantial, unanticipated market volatility of Q1 2020 collided with the global shift to trepidation in contact with others, our well-engrained reference points for work and leisure were forever transformed.
How the World’s Largest Liquidity Provider Motivated the Move to Non-Cash Funding
From the start of 2020 to date, the EquiLend NGT platform has seen a notable increase in non-cash securities lending transactions. Here’s what we believe motivated the jump…
Improving the Plumbing: Tackling Post-Trade Inefficiencies
Although the post-trade ecosystem is seen as the “plumbing” of financial services, mainly hidden but crucial, its role in ensuring the industry’s health made it key to global post-crisis regulatory reforms…
Ready, Steady, Go: How EquiLend Is Delivering on SFTR
As we close in on Phase 1 Go Live for SFTR, it is time to take stock of industry preparations for perhaps the most significant change the securities financing industry has ever seen.
Women’s History Month 2019
This Women’s History Month, we celebrate the incredible contributions women have made throughout history.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do – A Brexit Update
It is almost three years since Britain voted to leave the EU, and approaching two years since the U.K. and EU began negotiations around the “divorce” terms. However, despite this, the world appears none the wiser as to what will happen come March 29, 2019, and beyond.