REGnosys at ISLA's 33rd Annual Securities Finance & Collateral Management Conference

Our CEO and Founder, Laurent-Olivier Labeis, and Head of Client Services, Lionel Smith-Gordon, have been in Lisbon as REGnosys proudly sponsors International Securities Lending Association (ISLA)’s 33rd Annual Securities Finance & Collateral Management Conference, where discussions have highlighted how areas such as settlement cycle change, tokenisation, AI and common standards are rapidly moving from policy ambition to operational delivery.

• Day 1 focused on Europe’s move to T+1 and the operational rewiring ahead across front office, operations, collateral and reporting. SFTR remains firmly on the agenda too, with reporting quality and regulatory alignment reinforcing the need for standardisation.

• Day 2 turned to implementation with José Maria Brandão de Brito, Deputy Finance Minister of Portugal, setting out the policy context around competitiveness, market infrastructure and digital transformation, while the leaders’ discussion moderated by Brooke Hawkins Gillman explored automation, pricing transparency and scalable collateral workflows.

David Rowan's keynote brought technology into focus, with a reminder that the opportunity is to rethink existing processes and build smarter market infrastructure. That theme carried into wider discussions on tokenised collateral, digital asset infrastructure and interoperability.

A key theme of the event was moving from fragmented transformation to shared implementation. That urgency carried into the networking conversations, as firms are looking to adapt quickly to regulatory timelines, settlement cycles and technological reforms which are all accelerating.

Common data standards, shared models and transparent workflows will enable scale across regulatory reporting, collateral mobility, digital assets and post-trade automation.

Thank you to International Securities Lending Association (ISLA), the speakers and everyone we have spoken to in Lisbon for a thoughtful and forward-looking conference so far.