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Josh Galper

@Finadium

Finadium is an independent consultancy with a unique expertise in securities finance, collateral and derivatives. We provide expert advice, data and analysis.

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Could HQLAx‘s solution have helped ease market and operational disruptions during the recent UK Gilt volatility? #SFinanceM: finadium.com/could-hqlaxs-so…
Could HQLAX‘s solution have helped ease market and operational disruptions during the recent UK...

Could HQLAX‘s solution have helped ease market and operational disruptions during the recent UK...

The sharp volatility experienced in the UK Gilt markets in September and October 2022, the result of an ill-conceived government mini-budget, was exacerbated by Liability Driven Investment (LDI)...

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SFM Interviews: US year-end repo market signals and Fed forecasting @annareitman #SFinanceM: finadium.com/sfm-interviews-…
SFM Interviews: US year-end repo market signals and Fed forecasting

SFM Interviews: US year-end repo market signals and Fed forecasting

After a Q3 that raised lots of questions over an uncertain year-end amid central bank rate hikes, the US securities financing market is preparing for an orderly close to 2022. We speak with Daniel...

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Finadium: Agent Lender Survey 2022 #SFinanceM: finadium.com/finadium-agent-…

Finadium: Agent Lender Survey 2022

Finadium presents the results of a survey of leading agent lenders conducted in October 2022 to hear their views on technology investment, ways they are supporting their clients in lending...

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Zurich Secfinance and Repo Roundtable – notes and our slides #SFinanceM: finadium.com/zurich-secfinan…
Zurich Secfinance and Repo Roundtable – notes and our slides

Zurich Secfinance and Repo Roundtable – notes and our slides

We were pleased to welcome 45 guests at our Securities Finance and Repo Roundtable event in Zurich last week, hosted along with BKB and SIX. Here are some reflections and our slide deck available...

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SFM Interview: reusing collateral has a trade-off in QE-fueled repo markets, what about QT? @annareitman #SFinanceM: finadium.com/sfm-interview-i…

SFM Interview: reusing collateral has a trade-off in QE-fueled repo markets, what about QT?

We recently came across an interesting research paper that scrutinized collateral reuse amid quantitative easing (QE)-induced scarcity in the German repo market. We speak with Emanuel Moench,...

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Eurex Repo: GC Pooling stepping up again as central banks pulling out #SFinanceM: finadium.com/eurex-repo-gc-p…
Eurex Repo: GC Pooling stepping up again as central banks pulling out

Eurex Repo: GC Pooling stepping up again as central banks pulling out

Eurex Repo’s GC Pooling is regularly delivering double-digit percentage growth in 2022. Frank Gast, managing director and member of the Management Board of Eurex Repo, and Carsten Hiller, head of...

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SFM Interview: Vantage’s UK CEO on the move from retail to institutional @annareitman #SFinanceM: finadium.com/sfm-interview-v…
SFM Interview: Vantage’s UK CEO on the move from retail to institutional

SFM Interview: Vantage’s UK CEO on the move from retail to institutional

There’s been a few firms we’ve highlighted that have translated their institutional product to retail over the last couple of years because of shifting trading trends. Now, some players think that...

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Assessing climate risk on bank balance sheets is no easy matter #SFinanceM: finadium.com/assessing-clima…

Assessing climate risk on bank balance sheets is no easy matter

The European Central Bank's (ECB) expectation that banks "fully" account for their climate risks on their balance sheets is serious business, starting with uncertain data and leading up through to...

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Financial Bite: Building out the layers of repo electronification with Tradeweb @Tradeweb #SFinanceM: finadium.com/financial-bite-…
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We’re taking DeFi seriously #SFinanceM: finadium.com/were-taking-def…
We’re taking DeFi seriously

We’re taking DeFi seriously

Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, is not crypto. It's more of an industry utility model that other things can be layered on top of. We've been thinking about DeFi for a few years now and have...

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SFM Interview: GLEIF advances tech and woos global partners to boost LEI adoption @annareitman #SFinanceM: finadium.com/sfm-interview-g…
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Would the SEC’s proposal to change 15c3-3a for UST repo clearing change market behavior without a full mandate? #SFinanceM: finadium.com/would-the-secs-…
Would the SEC’s proposal to change 15c3-3a for UST repo clearing change market behavior without a...

Would the SEC’s proposal to change 15c3-3a for UST repo clearing change market behavior without a...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) proposal to mandate clearing for US Treasuries (UST) and UST repo comes with a section on Rule 15c3-3, often called the broker-dealer customer...

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Two central bank working papers could have short-term impacts on financial regulation #SFinanceM: finadium.com/two-central-ban…
Two central bank working papers could have short-term impacts on financial regulation

Two central bank working papers could have short-term impacts on financial regulation

Central bank working papers generally have interesting things to say, but two papers published last week were both useful and have a high probability of making a short-term policy impact. The...

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SFM Interview: repo markets make a splash at Africa’s COP @annareitman #SFinanceM: finadium.com/sfm-interview-r…
SFM Interview: repo markets make a splash at Africa’s COP

SFM Interview: repo markets make a splash at Africa’s COP

Repo markets made their debut at the UN’s global climate change conference (COP26) last year in Glasgow with the launch of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility (LSF), but it wasn’t until this...

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ABCP and structured products in secfinance are freeing up balance sheet and regulatory constraints #SFinanceM: finadium.com/abcp-and-struct…
ABCP and structured products in secfinance are freeing up balance sheet and regulatory constraints

ABCP and structured products in secfinance are freeing up balance sheet and regulatory constraints

In securities finance, asset backed commercial paper (ABCP) is used for issuers to buy repo or swap assets from dealers and package into rated products to sell to a variety of firms, including back...

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SFM Interview: Meritsoft’s Carpenter on the urgency and limits of CSDR fails analytics @annareitman #SFinanceM: finadium.com/sfm-interview-m…
SFM Interview: Meritsoft’s Carpenter on the urgency and limits of CSDR fails analytics

SFM Interview: Meritsoft’s Carpenter on the urgency and limits of CSDR fails analytics

There's a lot of hurdles for both regulators and industry in providing data-based evidence showing that the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) penalties regime is working as intended...

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SFM Interview: Debevoise’s Xu on regulatory pace for digital assets and CBDC @annareitman #SFinanceM: finadium.com/sfm-interview-d…
SFM Interview: Debevoise’s Xu on regulatory pace for digital assets and CBDC

SFM Interview: Debevoise’s Xu on regulatory pace for digital assets and CBDC

The noise around digital assets and central bank digital currencies (CBDC) is not keeping pace with regulatory change. We speak with Chen Xu, corporate counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton and...

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What secfinance should learn from the FTX collapse @annareitman #SFinanceM: finadium.com/what-secfinance…

What secfinance should learn from the FTX collapse

Another crypto failure is leaving a mess for bankruptcy courts to clean up. While this isn't much of a surprise, capital markets should avoid wagging an “I told you so” finger. The institutional...

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Mandatory clearing of UST repo is a fine idea but expect a hit to market liquidity #SFinanceM: finadium.com/mandatory-clear…
Mandatory clearing of UST repo is a fine idea but expect a hit to market liquidity

Mandatory clearing of UST repo is a fine idea but expect a hit to market liquidity

The momentum for mandatory clearing of US Treasuries and US Treasury repo continues with the publication last week of a joint report from the US Treasury. Clearing is a fine idea but market...

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