Sourcing the most appropriate collateral to cover global exposures, thereby reducing the risk of financial transactions, has risen up the list of priorities for financial institutions in Asia in the past 12 months, according to a poll of delegates at this year’s Global Securities Financing (GSF) Conference Asia in Singapore which Clearstream and Singapore Exchange (SGX) jointly organised. 93.4 per cent of conference delegates “agreed” or “strongly agreed” that this has become a priority, only 6.6 per cent “disagreed”.
49.5 per cent of conference delegates said they believe there would be a shortfall of eligible collateral over the next 12 to 24 months; 28.4 per cent of the respondents do not think so; 17.3 per cent did not know and 4.9 even assumed there would be a...
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