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FIS

FIS' securities finance solutions assist securities finance market participants achieve greater transparency, efficiency and automation in an evolving market place. Our solutions provide a consolidated platform for an adaptive enterprise, incorporating trading, inventory and operations that supports principal, agency or hybrid securities finance models for the entire range of treasury, delta one, repo, securities lending and borrowing.

FIS® Securities Finance Trading Manager (formerly Apex Securities Finance) is an integrated global securities financing solution for repo and securities borrowing and lending across equity and fixed income. With its real-time global inventory and position management, collateral management, post-trade processing and integrated market analytics, you can increase efficiency and automation.

FIS® Securities Finance Trading and Collateral Platform (formerly Apex Collateral) is a single solution for managing, trading and optimizing securities finance and collateral. It centralizes securities lending and repo trading with cross-product collateral management and optimizes asset allocations – so you can get the full value of your inventory and handle the volume and complexity of collateralization.

FIS® Securities Finance Market Data (formerly Astec Analytics) gives you the latest available global securities lending data, including independent, cost-effective intraday market volume and pricing data on more than 53,000 securities globally. With accurate information and greater transparency, you’ll be the first to know when the market moves so you can maximize your program efficiency.

FIS News

People moves

FIS onboards Walker to securities finance and collateral business

Martin Walker was formerly head of product for Broadridge's Securities Finance and Collateral Management division

Industry

BoE sets out design for new financial stability tool

The Contingent NBFI Repo Facility aims to address episodes of severe dysfunction in the UK sovereign debt market

Industry

Collateralisation brings ‘significant benefits’, says BoE

As counterparties across the financial ecosystem have become increasingly interconnected, credit relationships have become increasingly collateralised, according to Nathanael Benjamin

Technology

FIS launches new trade matching platform

The Securities Finance Matching Platform uses an automated solution to facilitate secure, scalable, and cost-effective processing of securities finance trades

FIS Features

Fiscal authorities target tax abusive transactions

In a two-part article, tax experts speak to Bob Currie about how tax reforms are impacting securities financing markets and how tax authorities are acting to eliminate the risk of tax abusive schemes

What do Web3 and the metaverse have to do with collateral management?

Collateral management and securities finance are not going full web3 just yet, but the train is gathering momentum explains Ted Allen, business development director for FIS Securities Finance and Collateral

What does new technology mean for securities lending?

Nancy Steiker, senior director, FIS Securities, Finance and Collateral, explores how technology innovation will reshape the settlement and lifecycle management methods used to support securities lending

CSDR: let’s get digital

Ted Allen, director of business development, securities finance and collateral at FIS, discusses why moving to a DLT and smart contract future is a better fix for settlement risk

FIS Interviews

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David Lewis

David Lewis, senior director, securities finance at FIS, speaks to Justin Lawson about the development of FIS's automated matching and execution platform for securities finance trades and the benefits that this will bring to lenders and borrowers

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Ted Allen

Ted Allen, director of business development, securities finance and collateral at FIS, talks with SFT about the use of global inventory consolidation and collateral optimisation as a means of improving asset utilisation across treasury, securities finance and cross-product collateral management

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Igor Salzgeber

Igor Salzgeber outlines how FIS has brought together all securities finance and collateral products into a single group that addresses the securities finance value chain and end-to-end lifecycle

FIS Astec Analytics

David Lewis

After more than 15 years serving traders, FIS Astec Analytics Lending Pit has been rebuilt from the ground up to meet the demands of the modern securities finance industry. David Lewis, explains all