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Native digital assets 鈥� maximising the benefits of digitisation

In a two-part article, buy-side business process and technology specialist Dr Ian Hunt explores why the popular view of digital assets is wrong and outlines the benefits that use of native digital assets can bring to securities finance

US securities lending rules back in focus

S&P Global Market Intelligence鈥檚 Igor Kaplun and Matthew Chessum examine the progress of the SEC鈥檚 Rule 10c-1 proposals designed to enhance transparency for securities lending and borrowing trades in the US

Distributed Ledger Repo enters its next phase

After reaching a new milestone, Broadridge鈥檚 head of digital innovation for capital markets Horacio Barakat says the firm鈥檚 blockchain-enabled DLR platform will continue to expand to new use cases and trade types as it enters the next phase of rollout. Carmella Haswell reports

The repo market is dead, long live the repo market!

Cyril Louchtchay de Fleurian, consultant on repo markets and securities finance trades, argues that current inflationary pressures and central bank rate increases are delivering what 15 years of low interest rates have failed to do, reshaping a securities finance industry which has become vulnerable and outdated

CDM: promoting data standardisation across the trade lifecycle

Bob Currie reports on efforts to promote a common digital representation of lifecycle events for securities lending, repo and derivatives trades and examines what comes next on the Common Domain Model project agenda

Forming a tokenised economy

Industry bodies are working to create a safe environment for the mainstream adoption of digital assets. Carmella Haswell reflects on how market practice changes, regulation and advances in technology and standards will define this journey

Evolving perspectives

APAC markets are shifting to put collateral management at the forefront. Purtini Joshi, head of Collateral+ Asia Pacific business development at State Street, evaluates the evolving collateral space and how digital assets are adding new dimensions to the investment cycle

A tokenised collateral network

With little fanfare but significant long-term impact, J.P. Morgan鈥檚 Paul Pirie and Bhavna Haswani discuss the recently completed landmark transaction, moving a tokenised money market fund onto a blockchain. Leveraging this initial transaction, J.P. Morgan is exploring how to expand this offering in the coming months

Be prepared

Brian Bollen talks to industry participants about the potential impact of the SEC鈥檚 Rule 10c-1 and why opinions on its effectiveness continue to differ

ESG considerations and securities lending

By combining global equities lending, ESG and proxy vote data from 2015 to 2021, State Street has evaluated the impact of ESG on loan supply, short-selling demand and institutional investor engagement. Travis Whitmore, senior quantitative researcher at research think tank State Street Associates, explains this research

Solving for today, building for tomorrow

In the second of a series of articles on collateral management strategy, Bob Currie examines steps to address collateral fragmentation, potential benefits from tokenisation and the essential need to be working with good data

Rediscovering trade opportunities

Katsuhiko Yamamoto, general manager of margin loan at Japan 兔子先生Finance, breaks down how firms can use margin transactions for short selling activity, enabling them to short Japanese shares at a reasonable price

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