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
Julian Eyre, of Delta Capita, examines how the sell side should best approach SFTR and avoid falling foul of regulators by learning the lessons from previous rules frameworks
SFTR is the most complex regulation yet to hit the EU’s securities finance market, and a robust reporting solution is needed to meet its requirements. DTCC presents its Report Hub
Incoming regulations and other drivers of change in the securities finance market environment is putting pressure on banks to find new cost-saving measures, and better technology is part of the answer
Sophie Marnhier Foy examines the data challenges faced by firms in calculating ISDA SIMM inputs and warns against shifting the data problem back to the user and incurring additional cost
Buy-side entities have had to adapt to radical changes coming from financial market evolution and, now, global pandemics. GLMX’s Sal Giglio explores the issues