In our CSDR Client Concerns series we’ve considered each of the points causing clients the greatest concerns ahead of CSDR and examined each in practice since CSDR go-live in Feb 2022. One issue which has only been lightly considered is that of liquidity. Has market liquidity been negatively impacted by increased regulation?
Often business leaders are perceived as being either safe pairs of hands or visionaries. To me, it is about trying to do both.
Andy McCardle, Head of EquiLend Asia, shares his unique viewpoint of the global and local changes impacting APAC markets from his experience in both US and Asian markets.
In a recent interview with Securities Finance Times, EquiLend’s Global Head of Products, Paul Lynch, and Head of Data & Analytics, Nancy Allen, discussed the creation of EquiLend’s Data & Analytics division.
EquiLend Trading saw a record-breaking quarter in relation to both volumes and notional traded across the platform, representing significant growth year over year. @Mike Norwood, EquiLend’s Global Trading Product Owner, reflects on the trends seen in the market since the start of the year and EquiLend’s continued growth and increasing volumes across our trading platform.
The European Settlement Regime has brought unexpected challenges for market participants in securities finance. In part 3 of our #CSDR concerns series, we explore the CSDR impact on collateral and the staggering impact on returns within the securities lending trade lifecycle.
In securities finance more broadly, we see big changes on the horizon. We believe 2022 will be a critical year for our industry.
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.
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 has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG) data analysis and validation service for securities finance market participants.
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 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.
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 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 Editor Jonathan Watkins recently interviewed EquiLend CEO Brian Lamb about EquiLend’s 20 years of innovation in the securities finance industry.
The current spike in interest reflects investors’ growing expectations that their capital be used to make the world a better place.
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 […]
Like many fellow chief executives and business leaders, my daily to-do list has recently been dominated by one key area of decision making
The social and political disruption of 2020 ignited a dialogue around pervasive racial and gender-based inequities.
In 2021, I believe the pace of technical innovation in the securities finance industry will accelerate immeasurably.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
This Women’s History Month, we celebrate the incredible contributions women have made throughout history.
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.