Securities lending
Central Banking Awards 2023: first group of winners revealed
Awards for Central bank of the year, Risk manager and asset service providers announced today
The ECB’s collateral conundrum
A lack of high-quality collateral in the eurozone has resulted in money market rates lagging ECB policy rates
Podcast: how central banks use securities lending
Technology reserve staff levels hold during pandemic
Remote work posed an operational challenge
Securities lending prevalent in European central banks
Monetary policy, market maturity and currency variation may limit adoption in other regions
Management failings caused Australian equity trading platform outage
Responsibility for upgrade project was unclear, IBM review finds
HKMA and BoJ launch new securities settlement framework
New “delivery versus payment link” aims to reduce settlement risk
Specialised lending initiative: Clearstream
Clearstream is supporting eurozone central banks with their asset purchase programmes
Video Q&A: Andrew Geggus, BNP Paribas
Central Banking met with Andrew Geggus, global head of agency lending trading at BNP Paribas, to discuss what the bank has seen from the central banking community in response to the Covid-19 crisis, and how this has impacted the securities lending…
Reserve Benchmarks 2020 report – charting new data frontiers
Perspectives on staffing, coverage, portfolio construction, benchmarking, external parties and risk
Swift announces major changes to system
Cloud-based platform will allow end-to-end transactions visibility and innovation by firms, Swift says
Advanced economies take the lead in securities lending
Nearly 60% of reserve managers lend out assets that are in high demand
MAS ramps up liquidity support
Financial sector will have increased access to Singapore and US dollar funding
Official institutions lead the Covid‑19 recovery charge
Tested by the Covid-19 pandemic, market consensus is that official institutions have been instrumental in mitigating market disruption. As economies work out how to adapt to a post-lockdown world, major public bodies are likely to play a key role in the…
Romania cuts rates as rising Covid-19 cases hurt economy
Central bank says resurgent pandemic risks recovery and calls for more clarity on fiscal policy
Fed extends emergency facilities for three months
Move comes as US Covid-19 reported cases surge to record highs ahead of July FOMC decision
BEAC to buy securities to support countries grappling with Covid-19
Bank of Central African States will purchase up to $830 million in secondary market
Hungary’s central bank to start buying government securities
Central bank says monetary policy has fallen short and cuts interest rates to a new low of 0.6%
Philippines central bank links up with debt trading platform
Move comes as central bank buys government bonds and prepares to issue own debt
Mauritian central bank to use $2 billion of reserves to fund firms
Central bank will also issue debt instruments to give government $1.5 billion in new funding
Banque de France CBDC project uses blockchain to settle transactions
Central bank and French lender use blockchain platform to pay for €40m securities tokens
MAS will regulate token derivatives
Central bank updates securities legislation to regulate tokens offered by approved exchanges
Libra’s Disparte on big tech’s move into digital currency
Facebook-backed consortium still has more than 3 billion customers in its sights
National Bank of Denmark divests stake in securities firm
Central bank will sell its 24.2% ownership of VP Securities to Euronext