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Saudi Arabia: Analysing the Kingdom’s ETF market

With exchange traded funds becoming increasingly important in the securities lending market, Carmella Haswell explores this landscape in the Middle East following the selection of Saudi Arabia’s first market maker for ETFs

When private credit stops being simple

As borrower stress leads to more amendments, payment-in-kind arrangements, and restructurings, private credit’s servicing infrastructure is facing a new test. Zarah Choudhary explores if managing the asset class through a more challenging credit environment will require far more than simply processing contractual cash flows

England building the rails for Islamic investment

The UK has built a reputation as the leading western centre for Islamic finance. As Sharia-compliant funds, pensions, and sukuk move closer to the mainstream, Zarah Choudhary examines whether the asset servicing infrastructure beneath them is ready to scale

Making corporate actions risk visible

Jonny Ruck, co-founder and CEO of IntelliActions, discusses with Zarah Choudhary, the market risk embedded within corporate actions, the value lost through missed elections, and why AI remains a tool rather than a complete solution

Japan’s servicing evolution

As the land of the rising sun seeks to turn household savings into investment, attract greater international capital, and modernise its financial markets, the country’s asset servicing infrastructure is entering a period of significant change

Securities services technology evolution

Richard Wilson, executive director, S&P Global Market Intelligence, looks at how technology transformation is shifting from a focus on innovation alone, to the challenge of building scalable, efficient, and resilient operating models

Post-Brexit capital markets reform

Tahlia Kraefft explores how the FCA’s Secondary Market reforms sit within the post-Brexit change in UK financial regulation strategy to enhance the competitiveness of UK markets as it transitions from fixed EU-based rules toward a regime fitted to UK market structure

US Treasury Clearing’s Rule shifts from regulation to implementation

Three years after the US Securities Exchange Commission embraced mandatory central clearing for the majority of the US Treasury market, Tahlia Kraefft explores how firms have changed their approach from questioning the necessity of it to how they will effectively enforce it