The ultra-high growth ESG sector claims to have laudable aims of offering investors a way to support the transition to a more sustainable world, but is market enthusiasm creating a breeding ground for fraud? Short sellers think so
The US Treasury’s revived hedge fund working group will continue where it left off, says Jonah Crane, who led the group in 2016, after the pandemic focused minds from both sides of the political aisle on market stressors
The US Treasury’s revived hedge fund working group will continue where it left off, says Jonah Crane, who led the group in 2016, after the pandemic focused minds from both sides of the political aisle on market stressors
Don D’Eramo, head of securities finance at RBC Investor & Treasury Services, offers an overview of why a securities lending programme can offer low-risk returns and support capital market liquidity
Rob Verrillo, CEO of ConneXXion Markets, updates SFT on where the electronic repo platform fits into the modern financing landscape to provide much-needed liquidity amid regulatory and macro market constraints
Avinash Parmar, senior product manager at Pirum Systems, discusses his first year with the service provider and the recent launch of its corporate action service CoacsConnect
The discussion, held remotely, touched on promising new markets, post-pandemic recoveries, ESG and the role securities lending is playing in both novel and legacy asset manager portfolios
Twenty plus years into their business, the eSecLending team sat down with SFT to discuss how the market’s only specialist agent lender is still going strong all these years later by keeping to its core business. And, we find out how their segregated programme model is increasingly attractive to sophisticated beneficial owners in the current market environment