Overview
The event “Saudi Arabia’s Evolving Capital Markets: Focus on Repo & Securities Lending”, originally scheduled to take place in Riyadh on 27 April, has been rescheduled for Wednesday 20 January 2027.
The KSA’s Vision 2030 and the Future Investment Initiative continue to drive remarkable growth in the country’s financial markets and wider economy.
Repo and securities lending are an integral part of creating a robust and liquid capital markets eco-system, where ICMA and ISLA have played an integral role in its development, working closely with local regulators, policy makers and firms on key legal, advocacy and regulatory reforms and developments, to further enhance liquidity and market diversification. On the 2nd of October 2025, we published a new legal opinion that recognises the enforceability of close-out netting under regulations published by the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) and Capital Markets Authority (CMA) the same year. Authored by Riyadh-based firm STAT Law, the netting opinion covers the GMRA and GMSLA, to provide market participants and their compliance teams the assurance that repo and securities lending transactions documented under certain versions, will be enforceable under the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
This one-day event will look to bring together key local stakeholders. including regulators and the securities exchange, prominent regional financial institutions, and global market players, to provide an update on the growth of the SFT market in recent months, operational and infrastructure developments, Islamic repo and securities lending, as well as the Kingdom in the context of regional and global markets.
Admission: This event is free to attend and open to all interested market participants.
If you have any questions, please contact ICMA events.
Sponsorship opportunities
Sponsorship opportunities are available. Download the sponsorship brochure.
For more information please get in touch with Luke.Byrne@icmagroup.org
Sponsors
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BNP Paribas’ Securities Services business is a leading global custodian providing multi-asset post-trade and asset servicing solutions to buy-side and sell-side market participants, corporates and issuers. With a global reach covering 90+ markets, its custody network is one of the most extensive in the industry, enabling clients to maximise their investment opportunities worldwide. |
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Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency, efficiency, and fairness to markets. The company helps connect influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology solutions that enable our customers to make more informed decisions and foster better collaboration. For more information, visit Bloomberg.com/company or request a demo. |
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Clearstream provides the trusted and innovative post-trade infrastructure for global financial markets, driving the leading securities and funds servicing ecosystems of tomorrow. As a truster leader, Clearstream offers a comprehensive range of solutions spanning securities issuance, settlement, custody, collateral management, lending and liquidity services. With more than 21 trillion euros assets under custody, Clearstream is one of the world's largest settlement and custody firms for domestic and international securities. Clearstream’s Pan-European CSD solution uniquely enables clients to settle nearly all European securities through a single account while covering the full asset-servicing value chain, including income processing, corporate actions and tax services. In line with its strategic initiative to connect global investors with emerging and dynamic markets in Middle East, Clearstream has joined forces with Edaa, the Saudi Securities Depository Company, to advance the local post-trade market’s infrastructure and boost market liquidity and efficiency. The collaboration leverages Clearstream’s global expertise to enhance the region’s infrastructure and roll out services such as collateral management, securities lending and borrowing, fund services and digital securities. |
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Deutsche Bank provides retail and private banking, corporate and transaction banking, lending, asset and wealth management products and services as well as focused investment banking to private individuals, small and medium-sized companies, corporations, governments and institutional investors. Deutsche Bank is the leading bank in Germany with strong European roots and a global network. |
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Equilend is a global financial technology firm offering Trading, Workflow Automation, Data & Insights, and Digital Solutions for the securities finance industry. With offices in North America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, Equilend operates across various jurisdictions worldwide, adhering to the highest regulatory standards. The company is committed to excellence and innovation and is consistently recognized for its contributions to the industry. Equilend is Great Place to Work Certified™ in the U.S., UK, Ireland, and India and has been awarded Trading System of the Year, Americas Data Provider of the Year, and Asian Data Provider of the Year in the Securities Finance Times Industry Excellence Awards 2026. |
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We aspire to be the world’s most exceptional financial institution, united by our shared values of partnership, client service, integrity, and excellence. Operating at the center of capital markets, we act as one firm, mobilizing our people, capital, and ideas to deliver superior results across our clients’ most complex challenges. For 156 years, Goldman Sachs has delivered world-class execution on a global scale across our leading Global Banking & Markets and Asset & Wealth Management businesses. |
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Pirum was founded in 2000 with the objective of automating the securities finance and collateral management industries. That connectivity has since made Pirum the global gold standard in securities finance, and is now the foundation for Pirum's next chapter: AI-enabled solutions that turn a fully connected network into decision-ready intelligence for clients. The Pirum product suite, which uniquely covers pre- and post-trade activity as well as collateral management, is used and trusted by over 150 financial institutions around the world, covering both buy- and sell-side activity. Pirum delivers automation, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, resilience, and reduced cost for its network of clients, who use Pirum’s solutions to connect, communicate, optimize and process their trades in global financial markets. By connecting market participants around the world, the Pirum dynamo sits at the heart of a complex multi-party financial markets eco-system, all the while increasing transparency and resilience, streamlining operations, and fostering collaboration. |
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SNB Capital Company, a licensed entity by Capital Market Authority (CMA), is a leading regional financial institution with deep industry expertise across five business lines: Asset Management, Wealth Management, Securities, Investment Banking, and Principal Investments. SNB Capital is the leading broker in Saudi Arabia with a ~ 16% market share and the largest asset manager in the Kingdom with SAR 255 billion of assets under management as of Dec 2025. |
