In a recent Northern Trust webinar, the bank's head of North American equity securities lending trading predicted that a surplus of capital and the pent-up IPO and M&A pipeline from 2020 will bring a flurry arbitrage opportunities
PASLA and major custodians predict China will see radical growth in its securities finance markets once international investors get comfortable on the mainland
According to IHS Markit, January was most revenue generating month for US equity finance on record, with $41 million of the $453 million total coming from GameStop鈥檚 short squeeze
MarketAxess has reported its monthly trading volume for January 2021 totalled $575.3 billion, which consisted of $236.5 billion in credit volume and $338.8 billion in rates volume
The utilisation of CDS鈥 Post-Trade Modernisation settlement platform and Euroclear鈥檚 Collateral Highway will enable market participants to mobilise collateral assets across repo, securities lending, cleared and uncleared margin accounts
Convertible hedging may have increased amid the surging share price, which partly explains the increase in share borrowing despite the apparent 鈥渇ace-melting short squeeze,鈥 says IHS Markit鈥檚 Sam Pierson
The US SEC has offered a thinly-veiled warning to Robinhood that it will be investigating its decision to ban investors from buying several stocks that have surged in recent weeks