Collateral crunch looms for asset owners

In a low-growth, low-interest rate world, how you maximise the returns from your current holdings will be a key determinant of future success. Moreover, with regulators and exchanges forcing most, if not all, forms of financial transaction onto exchanges, the demand for collateral will reach new highs. As Asian asset owners are holders of the largest pools of highly rated securities in the world, they will play a crucial role in the fast developing world of collateral management…