Contributors to ISLA’s SRD II taskforce unpack what the incoming update to the Shareholders Rights Directive means for securities lending and what challenges await
Darragh Hayes, director of LEI Worldwide, a GLEIF Registration Agent that provides LEIs to firms globally, discusses the state of LEI issuance across the EU ahead of the SFTR go-live
David Lewis, of FIS, tracks the increasing use of data as a window into the market over the years and explains how the COVID-19 pandemic could also be the next driver of improvements
Iain Mackay of EquiLend and Sunil Daswani of MarketAxess explain how buy-side firms will benefit from their SFTR connectivity ahead of the reporting deadline in October 2020
IHS Markit discusses current testing, the vexing issue of UTI generation and ISO 20022 schema challenges under SFTR, which many firms will be going down to the wire to solve