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Accessing the Common Domain Model (CDM) can be achieved through REGnosys’ platform Rosetta. This video, which is a recorded session of one of the CDM working group sessions, explains what Rosetta is, how to access it, and the securities lending product and event models.
Watch each of the individual sessions of ISLA’s 11th Post Trade Conference. This year’s event took place virtually in March 2021. Drawing upon the overall conference, this final session will pull the themes and threads of the two days together.
Watch each of the individual sessions of ISLA’s 11th Post Trade Conference. This year’s event took place virtually in March 2021. The session explores how these building blocks will lead to the wider use of DLT, smart contracts and tokenisation, technologies that have the potential to transform the market, particularly in the realms of connectivity and collateral optimisation.
Watch each of the individual sessions of ISLA’s 11th Post Trade Conference. This year’s event took place virtually in March 2021. This session outlines the work of the ISLA Legal Steering Group as well Opinions and Documentation sub groups, including ongoing and upcoming priorities for 2021 and implications on legal in terms of the regulatory landscape.
Watch each of the individual sessions of ISLA’s 11th Post Trade Conference. This year’s event took place virtually in March 2021. This panel discussion looks at the key issues that will allow an investor to fully comply with their ESG objectives whilst maintaining an effective lending programme. In particular, the operational questions that need to be addressed around areas such as voting, corporate actions and the management of collateral.
Watch each of the individual sessions of ISLA’s 11th Post Trade Conference. This year’s event took place virtually in March 2021. This session is an introduction of a joint ESG white paper produced by ISLA and Allen & Overy.
Watch each of the individual sessions of ISLA’s 11th Post Trade Conference. This year’s event took place virtually in March 2021. This panel discussion looks at the key challenges and opportunities facing our industry, but viewed through the lens of our fellow industry associations.
Watch each of the individual sessions of ISLA’s 11th Post Trade Conference. This year’s event took place virtually in March 2021. This session with Andrew Dyson, CEO, ISLA and Rupert Perry, Founder, Pirum looks back at how the post trade world has changed and evolved over the decades.
Watch each of the individual sessions of ISLA’s 11th Post Trade Conference. This year’s event took place virtually in March 2021. This session covers the Opening Keynote Address, given by Carmine Di Noia, Commissioner, CONSOB, and Chair of the Post-Trading Standing Committee ESMA.
Watch each of the individual sessions of ISLA’s 11th Post Trade Conference. This year’s event took place virtually in March 2021. The final session of the opening day focuses on the emergence of new markets as well as how regulatory change is creating fresh opportunities within existing markets. As investors and industry stakeholders seek to exploit these ideas, this session centres around asset mobilisation, connectivity, and infrastructure covering the Middle East and Africa, China Stock Connect as well as the SEC 15c3 changes.
Watch each of the individual sessions of ISLA’s 11th Post Trade Conference. This year’s event took place virtually in March 2021. This year’s practitioners panel is drawn primarily from our technical working groups. In addition to familiar topics such as corporate actions management, as well as reconciliation and billing processes, senior operations representatives look at how emerging themes such as ESG, SRD as well as Brexit are driving a new set of challenges across all aspects of post trade.
Watch each of the individual sessions of ISLA’s 11th Post Trade Conference. This year’s event took place virtually in March 2021. This session focuses on how the regulatory landscape we are facing today is reshaping how we think about post trade, including the rolling impacts of SFTR, CSDR, SRD and CMU on existing practices, processes, as well as best practice.
Watch each of the individual sessions of ISLA’s 11th Post Trade Conference. This year’s event took place virtually in March 2021. This session covers the Key Business, Trading & Product Drivers Impacting Our Markets. Senior business representatives from across the industry review key regulatory, economic and political drivers influencing trading decisions and business development priorities.
Watch each of the individual sessions of ISLA’s 11th Post Trade Conference. This year’s event took place virtually in March 2021. This session delivered by Andrew Dyson, CEO, ISLA provides an ISLA 2020/2021 update.
Watch each of the individual sessions of ISLA’s 11th Post Trade Conference. This year’s event took place virtually in March 2021. This session covers the Opening Keynote Address, given by Edwin Schooling Latter Director of Markets and Wholesale Policy, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
As part of a LinkedIn Live run by Pierpoint Financial Consulting, ISLA’s David Shone, Director – Market Infrastructure & Technology, recently joined the #SecuritiesLendingLive conversation as a special guest addressing recent updates to the Common Domain Model (CDM) with Julian Eyre of Eyre & Co and the Pierpoint team.
Watch each of the individual sessions of the ISLA CDM Showcase, a webinar event that took place on 1 December 2020, with presentations and demonstrations modelling the lifecycle of a securities lending transaction using a Common Domain Model (CDM) architecture in conjunction with a subgroup of ISLA’s members.
Watch each of the individual sessions of the ISLA CDM Showcase, a webinar event that took place on 1 December 2020, with presentations and demonstrations modelling the lifecycle of a securities lending transaction using a Common Domain Model (CDM) architecture in conjunction with a subgroup of ISLA’s members.
Watch each of the individual sessions of the ISLA CDM Showcase, a webinar event that took place on 1 December 2020, with presentations and demonstrations modelling the lifecycle of a securities lending transaction using a Common Domain Model (CDM) architecture in conjunction with a subgroup of ISLA’s members.
Watch each of the individual sessions of the ISLA CDM Showcase, a webinar event that took place on 1 December 2020, with presentations and demonstrations modelling the lifecycle of a securities lending transaction using a Common Domain Model (CDM) architecture in conjunction with a subgroup of ISLA’s members.
Watch each of the individual sessions of the ISLA CDM Showcase, a webinar event that took place on 1 December 2020, with presentations and demonstrations modelling the lifecycle of a securities lending transaction using a Common Domain Model (CDM) architecture in conjunction with a subgroup of ISLA’s members.
Watch each of the individual sessions of the ISLA CDM Showcase, a webinar event that took place on 1 December 2020, with presentations and demonstrations modelling the lifecycle of a securities lending transaction using a Common Domain Model (CDM) architecture in conjunction with a subgroup of ISLA’s members.
Watch each of the individual sessions of the ISLA CDM Showcase, a webinar event that took place on 1 December 2020, with presentations and demonstrations modelling the lifecycle of a securities lending transaction using a Common Domain Model (CDM) architecture in conjunction with a subgroup of ISLA’s members.
Watch each of the individual sessions of the ISLA CDM Showcase, a webinar event that took place on 1 December 2020, with presentations and demonstrations modelling the lifecycle of a securities lending transaction using a Common Domain Model (CDM) architecture in conjunction with a subgroup of ISLA’s members.
In December 2020, ISLA partnered with World Pensions Council to support the G7 Pensions Global Financial Forum 2020. This second session, includes a fire-side chat with Andrew Dyson CEO ISLA, Sarah Wilson and Xavier Bouthors who discuss the rise of ESG in the context of asset management and evolving investor sentiment. Familiar themes such as shareholder engagement as well as proxy voting are considered, as a traditionally rules-based regulatory world continues to focus and adapt to an increasingly values-based one.
In December 2020, ISLA partnered with World Pensions Council to support the G7 Pensions Global Financial Forum 2020. This session covers the panel moderated by ISLA’s Head of Legal Services, Tina Baker, and featuring Ernst Dolce, Xavier Bouthors, Maurice Leo and Rickie Smith. Considering themes such as Brexit, liquidity, the broader aims of the Capital Markets Union, as well as collateral harmonisation and mobilisation. Followed by a presentation from Stephen Yeats on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG).
Watch the ISLA CDM Showcase catch up video in full. A webinar event that took place on 1 December 2020, with presentations and demonstrations modelling the lifecycle of a securities lending transaction using a Common Domain Model (CDM) architecture in conjunction with a subgroup of ISLA’s members.
This short 3 minute animation discusses the securities lending and financing industry from the perspective of the myriad of disparate platforms, processes and systems that have been built over the years, and the corresponding challenges to market participants in the form of costs and operational risk. The ISLA Common Domain Model (CDM), which the Association is building in collaboration with its membership, lays the foundation for a digital future for these markets. By consistently modelling product and event representations, our objective is to create industry-wide uniformity and best practice.
On September 29, 2020, EquiLend hosted a live-streamed panel of global industry experts as they discussed and debated on relevant topics on digital transformation including technology innovation, process standardization and digitization of documents and data.
To conclude the ISF & ISLA Securities Finance Webinar Series 2020, Roy Zimmerhansl and Andrew Dyson discuss the key highlights and talking points, and how ISLA’s own priorities relate to the broad array of topics covered over the preceding ten days.
ISLA have highlighted common data representations as a priority whilst firms continue to grapple with SFTR. We may be entering a difficult period for profitability. Will the industry have the resources to continue the drive towards a digitalised future, or are the potential efficiencies more of a necessity than ever? What are the latest developments for documentation? What are the next steps in post-trade efficiency? Watch the popular technology session at the ISF & ISLA Securities Finance Webinar Series between 7 – 16 July 2020.
Set against a backdrop of recent volatility, short-selling bans and changing trading strategies, what might the demand landscape look like for the rest of the year, and into 2021? What will this mean for prime brokers, agent lenders and ultimately beneficial owners? Watch the penultimate session at the ISF & ISLA Securities Finance Webinar Series (7 – 16 July 2020).
As Europe begins to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, there is no doubt that that the sustainable finance agenda will play an integral part in that recovery process. As retail investors increasingly demand other outcomes from their investments than simply profit, this session at the recent ISF & ISLA Securities Finance Webinar Series (7 – 16 July 2020) debates where Europe is on this journey.
Senior figures from across the securities finance industry share their perspectives, outlook, and experiences so far during this exceptional year at the ISF & ISLA Securities Finance Webinar Series.
What effects were transmitted through the web of agent lenders, market makers, exchanges, MMFs? What were the connections between repo, SBL, TRS, HQLA, and even ETF liquidity? What was expected, unexpected, and counter-intuitive? If you missed it, watch this diverse group respond to these questions and more during the ISF & ISLA Securities Finance Webinar Series.
What are the key challenges that Europe faces when thinking about the development of a fully fledged market-based economic model, and how may those change now that it is increasingly clear that the UK is likely to pursue a strategy of regulatory divergence in the medium term. Watch this esteemed panel at the ISF & ISLA Securities Finance Webinar Series.
Recent market volatility has raised a number of questions regarding the impact of coming regulations and the effect that could have on the markets post-implementation. Watch this insightful panel discussion from the ISF & ISLA Securities Finance Webinar Series.
This short 5 minute animation, produced by the digital team at FleishmanHillard, explains what securities lending is, who uses securities lending and why, and how securities lending benefits broader financial markets and the provision of liquidity.
On June 4, 2020, EquiLend curated a live-streamed panel of global industry experts, including Andrew Dyson, where they debated the impactful, sudden change that swept across securities finance with COVID-19, and how the industry will navigate the new environment in the future.
07 April 2021
Hosted by members of ISLA’s Legal and RegTech teams, the latest Legal & Regulatory Broadcast Podcast provides commentary and updates on the Association’s key priorities across advocacy, regulatory, market practice and legal.
29 March 2021
As part of the RegCast podcast series, in Episode 5 ‘ISLA CDM – Safe, Cheap, Digital Innovation’, ISLA’s Andrew Dyson (CEO), Adrian Dale (Head of Regulation & Market Practice) and David Shone (Director – Market Infrastructure & Technology) join PJ Di Giammarino CEO of JWG , to talk about the implementation of a Clause Library and Common Domain Model within securities lending.
26 February 2021
As part of The REGIS-TR RoundUp podcast series, in the Season 3 finale, Andrew Dyson, CEO, ISLA, talks about all the major issues and stories covered in season 3, as well as looking forward to the future of securities finance in the EU, UK and global markets. Plus Dr. Lulu Preston offers some more brain hacks and mental health tips for your daily routine, and the virtual studio crew update the Brexit news, and developments for EMIR reporting in the UK.
18 December 2020
Andrew Dyson, CEO, alongside Adrian Dale, Head of Regulation & Market Practice, Tina Baker, Head of Legal Services, Lewis Nicholson and Farrah Mahmood, Regulatory Analysts, provide a quarterly update on the Association’s key priorities across advocacy, regulatory, market practice and legal in our latest Legal & Regulatory December podcast.
02 October 2020
Andrew Dyson, CEO, alongside Adrian Dale, Head of Regulation & Market Practice, Farrah Mahmood, Regulatory Analyst, and Tina Baker, Head of Legal Services provide a quarterly update on the Association’s key priorities across advocacy, regulatory, market practice and legal in our latest podcast.
30 June 2020
Welcome to ISLA’s first Legal & Regulatory Broadcast Podcast! Hosted by Adrian Dale, Head of Regulation & Market Practice, our regular update on the Association’s key priorities across advocacy, regulatory, market practice and legal, is now delivered via an informative podcast.
01 May 2020
As part of their Insights series, Brooke Gillman and Simon Lee at eSecLending speak with Matthew Chessum from Aberdeen Standard Investments and Radek Stech from the ISLA Council for Sustainable Finance on the subject of ESG and securities lending.
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