This year’s survey shows a renewed appetite for fund launches, especially for debt funds, and a rising demand for digital...

Regulatory-backed restrictions are leading Ucits funds to step back from securities lending. Nicholas Pratt talks to lending agents and prime...

Nicholas Pratt looks at the attention managers pay to the cost of clearing and settlement and finds that the costs...

Hopes are high that the Central Bank of Ireland’s final guidance on fund governance will help to dispel its financial...

In the fintech age, the threatening word ‘disruption’ reverberates around the asset management industry. Yet ‘the barbarians at the gate’...

Global custodians feel blockchain will strengthen their market position. But unless they use it to overhaul their service, rather than...

New participants are entering the securities lending market in search of extra revenues at a low risk. Funds Europe talks...

BNP Paribas Securities Services’ Ross Bowman talks about the latest trends in the securities lending market and the growing needs...

With much uncertainty around cross-border fund distribution after Brexit, Nicholas Pratt asks what steps fund firms could take now to...

Repeated attempts to establish a central counterparty for securities lending have failed to gain traction among the buy-side. Nicholas Pratt...