This Week's Top Stories

March 18 2021
The drum is beating loud for the idea of convergence across collateralized products, encouraged by more firms captured by UMR and needing to source securities through repo or securities lending. We think that there are several streams of the conversation though; this should be parsed out to reach common understandings.
 
March 17 2021
ISLA’s Post-trade conference brought together all corners of the securities lending market to consider the way changes are shaping out across the industry. Participants expressed plenty of optimism anchored by uncertainty over major regulatory upheaval, particularly over the incoming Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR). We highlight a few of the conversations from the first day.