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The Field Effect is heading to the ISLA Conference 2017

David Field (Managing Director), Mark Barnard (Sec Finance Practice Lead), Simon Davies (Senior Consultant) & Neelam Rathod (Senior Consultant) will be attending this year’s ISLA conference. They are looking forward to meeting you all and discussing major challenges facing the industry including SFTR. To read more about the event, click here

Derivatives Margin Requirements & Legal Documentation

Banks and Investment Managers are seeing an increase in the complexity and scope of the legal documentation challenge, with mass repapering requirements around Derivative collateral management being just the tip of the iceberg.  Its time to look at how efficiently you extract and use data from your legal documents, not just to meet regulatory requirements, […]

SFTR Implementation Dates

In March ESMA published its final RTS for SFTR. This doesn’t mean the 12 month implementation countdown has begun. We expect the European Comission and Parliament to ratify the RTS and publish it in the Official Journal of The European Union by October 2017. This would mean an SFTR go-live date of October 2018. Whilst market participants […]

Assessing the impact of SFTR

At TFE we’ve assessed the impact of SFTR on the Securities Lending and Repo life cycle, and of the 17 high level functional areas involved. We see 15 of these impacted by the regulatory requirements. With the upcoming requirements of Securities Lending Transaction Reporting is your business ready to cope? – Simon Davies