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In this episode we explore the need for Central Banks to lend high quality liquid assets acquired through ECB asset purchasing programmes - PSPP and PEPP - back into securities markets to increase liquidity. Our special guests are Tilman Fechter (Head of Banking, Funding & Financing at Clearstream) and Alexandre Roques (Head of Securities Lending, Trading & Distribution Desk, Clearstream) talking about the role of Clearstream's ASLplus platform which is a major part of Central Bank HQLA securities lending and foreign reserve lending for Central Banks and Sovereign Wealth Funds around the world.

Each of the 30 minutes of lively episodes are hosted by Andrew Keith Walker, Finance and Tech Journalist and Christian Rossler, Senior VP, Securities Lending and Borrowing Products at Clearstream.

In this show our hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler go in-depth for a lively SecLending chat about Clearstream's new fails lending product ASL Principal, which bridges the gap between ICSDs and CSD settlement on the T2S platform.

The leads on this unique new product - Banu Apers (Head of Securities Lending and Borrowing, Clearstream) and Catherine Pring (Product Development Expert for Securities Lending and Borrowing at Clearstream) talk about the role of the product, its unique new features and opportunities it provides to lenders and borrowers to optimise their efficiency and increase liquidity when settlement issues arise.

This episode our hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler go in-depth for a lively SecLending chat about Clearstream's innovations in the field of Repo (repurchasing agreements) with Richard Glen (Head of Collateral Management, Clearstream) and Para Saratchandran (Product Manager for Repo, Clearstream).

Like Repo markets, this is a fast moving show where we explore the evolution of Repo, the challenges for NFCs (non-financial counterparties) who are entering the world of secured lending for the first time and the role of products like GC Pooling, CMAX and Triparty lending services that reduce the risks and increase the speed of lending, borrowing and downstream reporting. Plus we consider the role of Repo as the Swiss Army Knife of finance, in terms of increasing liquidity, precise borrowing of specific assets and its role in balance sheet netting and strategic goals for the banking sector.

This episode our hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler go in-depth for a lively SecLending chat about Clearstream's innovations in the field of Triparty Collateral management with Jonathan Lombardo (Chairman, ISLA) and Marc Poinsignon (Product Manager & Business Development of Triparty Agency Services).

With the insights of industry expert Jonathan Lombardo, we discuss the increasingly important role of Triparty agents in the Securities Lending market, with a particular focus on how they are helping a diversified client base of financial and non-financial counterparties, asset managers and funds bring greater liquidity into the market and enable more complex collateral basket solutions - preparing the way for green ESG collateral and the next generation of blockchain based solutions at Clearstream and their partners within the Deutsche Börse group.

This episode our hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler go in-depth for a lively chat about Clearstream's banking products and services with the banking products Head of Product Management Défi Kimenga and VP of Business and Product Development José Manoka.

We go in depth with the way Clearstream has developed a wide range of business enabling tools for market participants to manage their balance sheets and optimise their cash strategies. We explore the innovative credit, settlement, treasury and FX tools that leverage Clearstream's dual status as an ICSD and a CSD, plus the wider Deutsche Börse Group companies like Eurex and 360T, and Securities Lending programmes like ASLplus and Triparty Collateral Management. The goal is to offer low-friction, end-to-end services to Clearstream clients - and prepare the way for full ISO 20022 adoption and the impact this will have on central bank settlement worldwide.

In this episode we are joined by Jean-Robert Wilkin (Head of BFF Business Development, Clearstream ), James Cherry (SVP Collateral & Liquidity Management, Clearstream) and Simon Millington (Head of Business Development, CloudMargin) to talk about the new tech solutions that are enabling new market participants to comply with UMR regulations and the new Phase 6 changes that arrive in 2022.

We explore the challenges for the hundreds of newly in-scope counterparties under UMR Phase 6 to achieve the connectivity, data quality and automation they need to optimise their collateral requirements - and thrive in an increasingly regulated global market.

In this episode we look in-depth at the way blockchain technology and DLT is changing the world of collateral management with Fabrice Tomenko (CEO Clearstream International) and Nick Short (COO HQLAx).

We go in-depth with the game-changing tools at HQLAx that can transfer collateral ownership across locations and jurisdictions at precise times, and consider the new concept of Collateral Immobility and how it can reduce pain points for market participants, remove settlement friction, reduce collateral fragmentation and create greater interoperability between infrastructure, custodians and triparty agents.

In this show Frank Gast (MD Fixed Income Derivatives & Exec. Member Eurex Repo) and Carsten Hiller (Head of Fixed Income Derivatives, Funding & Financing Sales for Europe, Eurex) join the show to discuss the growth of GC Pooling and the Eurex Repo Partnership Programme.

Plus we explore the forces driving innovation and product development in the markets - from greater involvement of the Buy-Side and new market participants, through to the need for greater flexibility in Balance Sheet Netting and the emerging DLT and blockchain enabled Securities Lending markets around the world.