June 16 2020
This report is a survey of 43 senior collateral professionals at 21 firms including technology suppliers, custodians, operations outsourcers and central securities depositories. Our questions covered a cross-section of how COVID-19 has impacted collateral management, including economics, technology and expectations for the future.
June 16 2020
The collateral management industry deserves congratulations for making almost no noise over the last few months. Nothing grabs headlines like a disaster, but the mainstream press has been remarkable quiet about collateral management functioning. Here’s what vendors, custodians, outsourcing managers and central securities depositories told us on this topic for our latest report.
June 15 2020
There should be no surprise about what drove a 46% rise in the S&P 500 from March 22 to June 8, or the 6% drop that occurred last Thursday, or the 1.3% rise that happened on Friday. This is momentum trading in the land of algorithms. Cast aside all the newspaper articles about Robinhood and wary investors as drivers of pricing – let’s get to the numbers behind the machines.
