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People moves
Poutanen departs HQLAX
26 June 2025 Luxembourg
Reporter: Carmella Haswell
Elisa Poutanen will leave her position as sales lead following more than four years with the firm
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Hidden Road’s entrance into the fixed income and repo markets
Michael Santoro, head of fixed income and global funding group, and Robert Zambarano, managing director, macro and rates strategist at Hidden Road, explore the core operational inefficiencies facing the repo market and the firm’s next steps to evolve this space
The strategic imperative for a new era of market structure
Matt Chessum, director of securities finance at S&P Global Market Intelligence, discusses data analytics in respect of the repo market, shining a light on its value during periods of volatility, and the importance of client fairness
Pioneering new opportunities
Following significant demand for cash repos, collateral swaps, and TRS, Reona Sasaki, director of repo and securities lending (fixed income) at Japan Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Finance Co., analyses the JGB repo market
Central clearing for repo markets: Is Europe putting the cart before the horse?
Eurex’s Clive D’Souza, vice president, global products and markets, and Viktoria Hackenberg, vice president, regulatory affairs at Deutsche Börse, review central clearing of repo in Europe and the core findings from the firms’ deep dive on NBFI regulatory frameworks, risk standards, cross-product margining, and NSFR
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DNB Carnegie
J. Kenneth Hage
Leading securities finance at DNB Carnegie, J. Kenneth Hage catches up with Carmella Haswell following the recent acquisition of Carnegie Holding and discusses how the firm is positioning itself within the Nordic market
Consultant
Andrew Douglas
Andrew Douglas speaks to Jack McRae about his career, T+1, and finding out what his 37 years in financial services has been leading to
MUFG
Ruth Ferris
Ruth Ferris, head of financing Asia at MUFG, speaks with Justin Lawson about the evolving landscape of the repo market, discussing recent trends, challenges, and prospects for the year ahead
Euronext
Yama Darriet
Euronext’s Yama Darriet, head of OTC capture and Repo Expansion Initiative, discusses the firm’s major step forward in strengthening collateral management and repo clearing capabilities across Europe
MarketAxess
Sunil Daswani
Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Finance Times speaks with Sunil Daswani, repo business lead at MarketAxess, about how the firm’s post-trade matching technology is transforming securities financing operations and addressing key industry challenges
SIX
Richard Gomm
SIX’s Richard Gomm, senior product manager, clearing, provides an introductory lesson on central counterparties, as well as a review of the impacts of recent developments on the repo market and upcoming central clearing regulation
EquiLend
Nick Delikaris
EquiLend’s Nick Delikaris, chief product officer, explores the firm’s journey to innovation through its multi-year initiative to achieve 1Source, and why building with the market beats building for it
BNY
Gesa Johannsen
Gesa Johannsen, managing director, executive platform owner, Global Collateral platform, at BNY, talks to Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Finance Times about market trends and how the company’s solution serves its clients
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News and people moves roundupBearing fruit: A Nordic investment
Leading securities finance at DNB Carnegie, J. Kenneth Hage catches up with Carmella Haswell following the recent acquisition of Carnegie Holding and discusses how the firm is positioning itself within the Nordic market.Finding your purpose
Andrew Douglas speaks to Jack McRae about his career, T+1, and finding out what his 37 years in financial services has been leading to.The Canadian perspective: A digest of market trends
Industry leaders participated in discussions around the impact of geopolitics on regulation, the changing role of data, and reaching securities finance 2.0.