This year's survey includes perspectives on best practices in securities lending and collateral management, expectations about revenues and risk, and reactions to changes in securities finance market structure.
The European Parliament and the European Council are in discussions to change the Capital Requirements Directive and Regulation rules, with amendments falling into several categories:
capital and liquidity; risk and credit limits; and loose ends.
After years of writing about securities lending, the popular press still has a tendency to present the business in a negative light, even when something positive is happening. We saw this twice in the last week and are calling it out. And, a new lawsuit has hit town on prime broker collusion in US markets.
Finadium clients are invited to review our presentation on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) from Rates & Repo 2018. We focused on two potential impacts of SOFR on repo: the P&L impact and the regulatory environment.
While some efforts are being made by crypto and blockchain vendors to integrate with traditional securities businesses, others are showing that this may become a fully parallel universe with its own rules.
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