This Week's Top Stories
June 3 2021
US financial markets have a problem that Europe has known for years: interest rates for high quality liquid asset cash investments are hovering near zero or have turned negative. This has resulted in the skyrocketing use of the Federal Reserve’s Reverse Repo Facility (RRP) and an increasing interest in alternative repo products. These options have their own limitations however. Could the next choices for US cash be even further afield? A guest post from Natixis.
June 2 2021
Financial services firms are paying attention to the ESG supply chain of securities finance, and grappling with how it unfolds in practice given the need for objective data that’s yet to be standardized even while evidence grows that some automation efforts will be self-defeating to the overall aims. We speak with a custodian agent lender and fintech about ESG transparency and collateral.
