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Into the Matrix

Questions have been raised over the due diligence undertaken on cryptoexchange FTX, where nothing untoward about its financial controls was reported until it went bankrupt. FIS’ David Lewis examines the implications for conducting risk reviews in a world of traditional and digital assets

Moving with the times

FIS’ David Lewis explores how new generations of employees and clients are driving change in securities finance and how performance in the 2020s will be measured by more than basis point returns

Could it be a record year for securities finance revenues?

If markets continue to trend higher and the recent volatility continues, these could be perfect conditions for securities finance revenues to deliver impressive returns during H2, observes Matthew Chessum, director, securities finance, S&P Global Market Intelligence

Green shoots for securities finance in the depths of a crypto winter

FIS’ Ted Allen charts his journey into distributed ledger, detailing the benefits this can deliver to securities finance and the challenges of adapting to the institutional market

Collaboration and Competition

FIS’ David Lewis asks how much firms are willing to give away in order to get ahead as they reassess business strategies and build for the future

Balancing protection and progress

FIS’ David Lewis welcomes the return of in-person conference sessions and assesses the merits of cooperative data sharing in advance of the ISLA conference in Vienna

More than incremental income?

FIS’ David Lewis notes that there are already many fund providers where the fund management fees are low or even zero and where securities lending revenues are used to keep the lights on and the funds managed

Are You Busy?

Reflecting on the past 12 months of market data, FIS’ David Lewis observes that securities finance is getting ever more complex and busy, generating pressure on margins as work levels rise proportionally faster than revenue generation

The rise of retail

The power of the retail investor is increasing, affecting the way issuers communicate with their investors, how service providers deliver their offerings and how regulators supervise. FIS’ David Lewis examines the implications for securities finance markets

IHS Markit: Reflections on 2021 securities lending returns

Paul Wilson, managing director and global head of securities finance at IHS Markit, finds that global securities finance revenues increased year-on-year, sustained particularly by equity values and returning demand in APAC as markets removed short-selling bans

New Year, New Rules, Different Outcomes?

Regulators will push through a full agenda in 2022 designed to tighten market behaviour and to improve standards. But there are no new rules to encourage caveat emptor, or let the buyer beware, observes FIS’s David Lewis

Markets under surveillance

Whether it is SFTR or SFDR, regulators must be clear about regulatory objectives, the data to be gathered and how they measure that data, says FIS’ David Lewis. A lack of certainty runs the risk that regulations will have the opposite effect to what was intended

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