Pierpoint Financial Consulting

Timed to coincide with the closing of COP26, this show covers securities finance, ESG and related topics

Collateral is not one of those elements that will disappear, but could the range and way it is posted change for the better?

A membership group for securities finance professionals that want to learn, share, expand their networks and save money!

Stock Lending: I have been speaking with clients, presenting at conferences and writing about non-cash collateral since the early 1990s.

Four years ago this month, I made my annual pilgrimage to the RMA Securities Lending conference in Boca Raton, Florida.

The improved application of existing and future technologies will restore the supply/demand imbalance that appears to exist today

I was planning on doing a review of the latest Market Report that ISLA has been producing on a semi-annual basis for the past six years.

To be fully in line with lenders' investing principles, securities lending must adapt its business practices to embrace ESG requirements.

The first phase of collateral management is in place. Now the opportunity exists for phase one of collateral optimisation for investors

Centralised collateral management is obviously an efficient and sensible operating model. Unfortunately, it's not always that easy.

Raymond Blokland points to a connection between UMR preparations & the potential for investors to benefit from synthetic securities finance

Collateral continues to be ever-more important for sell-side firms, but fundamental change will be required for buy-side institutions