By Roy Zimmerhansl
Roy Zimmerhansl and his partners at Pierpoint Financial Consulting bring you Pierpoint Perspective$, focusing on the world of securities finance including securities lending, repo, collateral manag
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The podcast currently has 30 episodes available.
Ben Arnold and Michael Ashby of Meraki Global Advisors meet with Pierpoint Perspectives host Roy Zimmerhansl and speak with him on outsourced trading, the different models and the reasons why asset managers of all types may want to consider outsourced trading.
There are lessons to be learned and applied to a range of businesses, including securities finance.
You can find out more about Meraki at their website
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Darren Crowther and Vishal Agrawal of Broadridge join host Roy Zimmerhansl to discuss technology - the current state; the existing and potential applications for robotics and artificial intelligence; and the disruptors that are already influencing the thinking of financial market participants.
Broadridge
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Darren Crowther https://www.linkedin.com/in/darren-crowther-a8103421
Vishal Agrawal https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalagrawal1999
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Mark Faulkner, Co-Founder Credit Benchmark engages in a wide-ranging discussion with host Roy Zimmerhansl covering Basel IV, Peer-to-Peer, Pledge Collateral, Indemnifications, and even 'meme stocks'.
Timeline
00:00 Introduction
2:45 New developments at Credit Benchmark
6:30 Importance of Basel IV to Securities Finance
9:30 Unrated entities – wider impact than Securities Finance
16:00 Absorbing the cost, GC, Peer-to-Peer, and mitigants
18:56 Collateral eligibility and market evolution
22:30 ESG
28:20 Pledge Collateral
30:22 Challenge of regulatory roll-out of Basel IV?
37:21 No easy labels for organisations
38:52 Financial strength and indemnifications
41:06 Meme stock frenzy and Being There
45:15 Roy’s Episode summary
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You can reach Roy Zimmerhansl at [email protected] and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/royzimmerhansl
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This episode features Nick Bruce, who is Head of Business Development at Regis-TR; one of Europe's leading Trade Repositories. Speaking with host Roy Zimmerhansl, Nick gives listeners his perspective on the role of trade repositories, the rollout of SFTR, the challenge and opportunities of data evolution, and more.
Timeline
00:00 Introduction
3:05 What is a Trade Repository?
8:30 Breadth of Regis-TR regulatory coverage
9:40 A holistic view of data and evolution of standards
19:01 Bringing together data from different regulatory regimes
22:35 Not sexy, but definitely important
23:51 Impact of Brexit
32:08 The human side of working in a Covid world
45:38 Nick’s closing thoughts on the future
49:38 Roy’s Episode summary and Season Two wrap-up
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You can reach Roy Zimmerhansl at [email protected] and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/royzimmerhansl
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Que Phuong Dufournet-Tran, Trading Services & Analytics Regulatory Affairs, IHS Markit, continues with her SFTR Review, this time looking forward - what is the focus for the firms and industry participants for 2021?
In January 2021, her scope was widened beyond SFTR due to the IHS Markit has acquired Cappitech, a technology provider of regulatory reporting, best execution analysis and business intelligence solutions.
Timeline
00:00 Introduction
2:42 The motto for 2021 - Data Quality and Control
8:05 The focus on Lifecycle Events
10:58 The problem of missing LEIs for Non-EEA issuers
25:19 Responsibility without Control
30:48 What are market participants focussed on for 2021?
32:37 Data standardisation - an international objective
38:54 No regulation is perfect - in a better place than we were
40:40 Roy's wrap-up
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Que Phuong Dufournet-Tran, IHS Markit, takes listeners and host Roy Zimmerhansl through a review of the progress at the six-month stage after initial SFTR implementation.
Que Phuong works at IHS Markit in Trading and Services regulatory affairs, leading relations with industry associations and regulators for more than a year. In January her scope was widened beyond SFTR due to the IHS Markit has acquired Cappitech, a technology provider of regulatory reporting, best execution analysis and business intelligence solutions.
You can read Que Phuong's article that grabbed my attention at: http://bit.ly/SFTRQPDT
Timeline
00:00 Introduction
3:59 Interesting beginnings for SFTR journey
6:31 Initial observations on first six months
7:51 Key positives of the implementation
10:31 Achieving a high Acceptance Rate
13:42 Documentation break issues and resolution
14:33 Problems with Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI)
17:41 Improving counterparty exposure oversight
22:25 Turning to less positive aspects of implementation
30:31 Addressing the outstanding issues and priorities
33:22 Integrated information rather than UK/EU split
38:40 BAU or ongoing investment?
45:30 Minimum viable compliance vs Target Operating Model change
46:15 Outlook six-twelve months from today
47:11 Harmonisation of data
51:55 Learning from EMIR, Q&A process, Brexit
54:28 Additional responsibilities for Que Phuong
59:30 Roy's wrap-up
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Richard Comotto, expert securities finance consultant with a deep and rich history in repo markets gives his assessment of the first six months of the implementation of SFTR. He shares his views with host Roy Zimmerhansl, Practice Lead at Pierpoint.
Richard's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-comotto-14a6403
Timeline
00:00 Introduction
3:10 Initial observations on first six months
6:35 “Extraordinary effort“ required … and delivered
12:15 The positive aspects of the implementation
19:47 Failure to invest in ‘fit for purpose’ technology
29:51 The less-positive side of SFTR and its implementation
42:10 SFTR review in April?
44:30 Brexit
47:10 Rating SFTR performance of SFTR stakeholders
52:50 Closing thoughts from Richard
58:50 Pierpoint Alpha Community
59:57 Roy's wrap-up
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Jeroen Bakker and Roy Zimmerhansl review Jeroen's blog post series of (In)Famous Hot Trades that involve securities lending.
The blog posts mentioned in the episode are listed as part of the timeline
Timeline
00:00 Introduction
8:04 Wirecard https://bit.ly/HotWirecard
11:09 Grenke AG https://bit.ly/HotGrenke
15:49 GSX TechEdu https://bit.ly/HotGSXTech
20:50 Volkswagen/Porsche and “what is a Short Squeeze?” https://bit.ly/HotVWPorsche
26:39 Citigroup https://bit.ly/HotCiti
34:12 Carillion https://bit.ly/HotCarillion
37:51 Nikola https://bit.ly/HotNikola
44:55 DoorDash IPO – a future short?
48:28 A request from Jeroen from Podcast Listeners
48:52 Jeroen’s favourite blog post(s)
51:50 Roy's “Thank Yous” and wrap-up
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Lucinda Guthrie, Executive Editor, Acuris, has been covering financial markets as a journalist for the past 15 years. She has been at the heart of deals and deal-making and she takes listeners through a review of 2020 and looks forward to 2021.
You can find Lucinda on LinkedIn here
Learn more about Acuris products such as Mergermarket, Dealreporter and PaRR at: https://www.acuris.com/
Timeline
00:00 Introduction
2:50 What is Acuris and why is it relevant to Securities Finance
4:15 2020 - A roller coaster year
7:55 Pandemic-proof or Bottom-fishing?
10:33 Given COVID-19 impact, how are deals affecting structures?
13:17 Corporates return to public equity markets
17:50 What does a normal Q4 look like and how does 2020 compare?
19:22 Impact of Brexit
26:52 Preliminary outlook for 2021
32:00 What is a SPAC and what are they used for?
35:15 Working From Home and deal-making
40:40 Roy's wrap up
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Max Budra of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) speaks with Roy Zimmerhansl about "Short Selling and Responsible Investment" a report released by AIMA in conjunction with Simmons and Simmons.
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Max's email: [email protected]
Short Selling and Responsible Investment
Timeline
4:50 EY Report – Investors place growing importance on ESG factors for Alternative Managers
7:30 Are ESG and Responsible Investment the same thing?
9:00 Differing standards and priorities on ESG and responsible investment
11:25 Using hedge funds to manage ESG risks
17:15 Different time horizons and the relevance of ESG factors
21:45 No longer “anti-vice” funds
24:25 Short selling – always a part of the “G” in ESG
27:22 Greenwashing
32:20 Will leading ESG companies outperform and reshape indices?
38:00 Retail vs Sophisticated investors challenges of ESG index construction and regulation
40:20 ESG Long Short funds
41:50 Other work AIMA is focusing on
46:02 Roy’s closing thoughts
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The podcast currently has 30 episodes available.