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The Global Peer Financing Association (GPFA) is a non-profit group consisting of global beneficial owners actively engaged in the securities financing industry who share a goal to promote a more efficient and actionable way to increase and support peer-to-peer trading activity. GPFA's Peer Connections podcast series highlights beneficial owner members telling their stories of how their organizations approach securities lending and repo. The episodes support the group's goal of sharing insights, best practices and true transparency about securities lending.
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Matt Brunette of Norges Bank, Jerry May of OPERS and Michael Stamm of SWIB join Brooke Gillman to discuss the reasons each approach insourcing securities finance in different ways, from hybrid trading, to control over cash management, to owning risk or to managed agent models. No matter the route, each beneficial owner has evolved to meet their organization's needs while understanding their relative skill sets, resources, and operational capacities.
Chris Benish speaks with some of the newest GPFA members, Brian Yeazel and Kris Breitzman of Northwestern Mutual, about their approach to securities lending, repo, and cash collateral reinvestment and finds out what drove them to join GPFA.
Following the first GPFA podcast on indemnification, Matt Brunette from NBIM, Chris Benish from SWIB and Jerry May from OPERS continue the conversation comparing their views on how the cost of indemnification may impact the global beneficial owner community as well as the broader market. Read Mark Faulkner's paper here: http://globalpeerfinancingassociation.org/s/Something-Better-Change-13622-Credit-Benchmark.pdf
Matt Brunette from Norges Bank Investment Management and Mark Faulkner from Credit Benchmark discuss how regulatory capital constraints are impacting the market and how agent banks are starting to respond with real change to the way they do business and what may happen next Read Mark's paper here: http://globalpeerfinancingassociation.org/s/Something-Better-Change-13622-Credit-Benchmark.pdf
GPFA speaks with Thomas Aubrey to understand the impacts banking regulations will have on buy-side participants in the securities finance market View Thomas' paper entitled ‘EU capital rules to increase buyside trading costs' here: https://www.creditbenchmark.com/eu-capital-rules-to-increase-buyside-trading-costs/
Digging into the research, HOOP and SWIB presented their separate published papers on how to construct a better beta portfolio
GPFA talks to Jacky Lee of HOOPP and Redouane Elkamhi of the Rotman School of Management about their research work and published paper titled “Bridging the Gap between Strategic Allocation and Investment Risk"
Lisa Mantello from Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP led a renowned group of global experts in ESG investing through an interactive debate on the developments affecting ESG and financing today. Gordon L. Clark, from Oxford University, Timothy Hughes and Michael Innes from Osler and Oly Moir and Azadeh Nassiri from Slaughter and May joined the discussion with GPFA's global buyside member community.
Joris Hillmann, Michael Fitzsimmons and Shireen Silva discuss how AustralianSuper has evolved their securities lending program and what their build out plans are for the coming years as they focus on revenue, risk, collateral optimization and operational efficiencies on a global basis.
Jerry May from OhioPERS and Lisa Mantello from the law firm Osler break down the facts and discuss what should be considered as part of the transition.
Matt Brunette from NBIM joins us again to explain how risk modeling and analysis drives decision-making in their securities lending program
The NBIM Model

The NBIM Model

2021-04-0626:33

Matt Brunette walks us through the building blocks of the Norges Bank Investment Management securities lending program and how they slowly evolved by understanding risk, market demand and optimizing resources.
The Genesis of GPFA

The Genesis of GPFA

2021-02-1733:46

Global Peer Financing Association (GPFA) founding members Rob Goobie (HOOPP) and Dan Kiefer (CalPERS) along with GPFA sponsor Lisa Mantello (Osler, Hoskin, & Harcourt LLP) speak with moderator Charles Quintal at the CAiP Vitual Conference in December 2020 about how the association was formed and the future goals of the GPFA.
After a successful first 6 months of membership growth, GPFA looks to strengthen the community of beneficial owners knowing that they are Better Together with a collective voice and the ability to rely upon each other for best practices and experience.
Debbie Caruso from the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) chats with Lisa Mantello from Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto about how securities lending and repo documents work when dealing with various counterparts.
Greg Corcoran chats with his colleagues Jerry May and Michael Lotko at the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) about how they approach the investment of the cash collateral associated with their securities lending program.
The HOOPP model

The HOOPP model

2020-11-1919:06

Steve Anderson and Rob Goobie chat about how securities financing has evolved at the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan, known as HOOPP, and how their sophisticated approach to managing all financing activity in-house benefits their pensioners.
Speaking again to Dan Kiefer and Mike Johnson from CalPeRS about the market shift in collateral flexibility.
Dan Kiefer from CalPERS chats with Mark Faulkner from Credit Benchmark about credit views for non-traditional counterparts and how the peer to peer portion of the securities finance market may evolve.
The SWIB Model

The SWIB Model

2020-10-1515:50

Chris Benish, Ping Wong and Michael Stamm from the State of Wisconsin Investment Board review the past, present and future of securities financing activities at SWIB and discuss how peer to peer has allowed them to further optimize their counterparties.
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