Author Archives: Nick Stafford


‘Juniorisation’ of the industry?

David Field heard a great neologism in a bar last week… the securities finance industry is being “junior-ised”.  It’s clear firms simply can’t afford as much expensive senior management as they could, so layers of MDs and EDs are being shed. But the work still needs to be done, so the VPs are being put […]

Happy Birthday TFE & Our Brand New Offices

Last week TFE celebrated its first birthday! We would like to thank all of our clients for helping us to grow the business over the past year to a 12 strong team. To celebrate we have moved into lovely new offices in 40 Bank Street, this puts us further at the heart of our domain […]

David Field to chair The Collateral Panel at The ERCC AGM

David Field is delighted to be chairing The Collateral Panel at The European Repo & Collateral Committee AGM on Wednesday 27th January during the annual Clearstream conference in Luxembourg. The topic for discussion is: ‘Collateral Management – Do we know what we are talking about?’ Panel participants include: Grant Davies – formerly of iShares Capital […]

New Starter: Neelam Rathod

TFE are delighted to welcome Neelam Rathod to the team! We have asked her to write a little about her experience. Neelam joins us at an exciting time for TFE and will be starting on her first project next week. A little about me Hi there, I’m Neelam and I am delighted to have joined […]

Opengamma’s New Hosted Service

As the first working week of 2016 is in full swing, we wanted to draw your attention to an announcement made in mid-December by Opengamma, just in case you may have missed it during the pre-Christmas festivities. David Field’s analysis: “Interesting. The requirement for cross-asset multi-CCP margin simulation has been discussed for so long now […]

TFE contributes to Rocket 5

The latest issue of Rocket 5 published by The OTC space will feature an article by the TFE team. Focusing on the race to build a new collateral market infrastructure, we look at timelines and some of the vendors emerging pre-September 2016. As Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) are still pending, there is likely to be […]

TFE’s Transferable Method: Destination Change

We are focused on the Collateral & Clearing domain but we do help firms outside of the field. TFE has been working on a reinsurance project for the past few months and are looking forward to sharing a case study with you in the very near future. Ian Weavers founding partner and business architect has […]

TFE features in The Collateral Annual 2015

The team at TFE have been busy with thought leadership pieces over the past couple of months. The recently published Collateral Annual by The Securities & Lending Times features an article by Managing Director – David Field.