Joana Schlenczek, ISDA board member and head of FI rates structuring and client solutions at Santander Corporate & Investment Banking, and Nate Wuerffel, global head of market structure and head of product, global collateral, at BNY, speak with Panayiotis Dionysopoulos, global head of financial and enterprise risk at ISDA, about the growing interlinkages between derivatives and securities financing transactions, evolving margining and collateral dynamics, and the implications of the forthcoming US Treasury clearing mandates.
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