Global Investor/ISF will launch its annual tri-party survey on Tuesday April 1. The survey will run until Friday May 9.

For the first time respondents will have the option to rank tri-party providers for collateral management, in addition to securities lending and repo as in previous years. 

In the new overall collateral management tri-party table, each collateral management respondent’s scores will be averaged to give a final respondent score. A minimum of 5 responses will be required to qualify. 

Respondents can fill out the survey via the following link: bit.ly/1ohMHJP



SURVEY METHODOLOGY

There was one overall unweighted table, 17 service category tables and additionally three regional tables, one repo respondent table and one securities lending respondent table. The survey was open to all tri-party clients, including securities lending as per last year.

The tri-party survey is now open to all tri-party clients. This year for the first time respondents have the option of ranking tri-party providers for collateral management, in addition to securities lending and repo as in previous years.

Overall table
Respondents are asked to rate their tri-party providers across a number of service categories, on a scale of 7 to 1, where 7 is excellent and 1 is very poor.

Tri-party providers require a minimum of 10 responses to qualify in the overall table. You must also qualify in a minimum of two regions (see regional tables for criteria).

Each respondent’s scores are averaged to give a final respondent score. If a tri-party provider is rated multiple times by the same respondent firm in the same country the ratings will be averaged and will only count as a single response for the purposes of qualification.

Regional tables
Each of the regions requires a minimum number of responses.
The respondent’s location is used when calculating the regional tables.
Asia-Pacific: minimum of 5 responses
Emea: minimum of 10 responses
Americas: minimum of 10 responses


Overall repo tri-party table
Each repo respondent’s scores are averaged to give a final respondent score. A minimum of 5 responses is required to qualify.

Overall securities lending tri-party table
Each securities lending respondent’s scores are averaged to give a final respondent score. A minimum of 5 responses is required to qualify.

Overall collateral management tri-party table
Each collateral management respondent’s scores are averaged to give a final respondent score. A minimum of 5 responses is required to qualify.

Service category tables
For each provider, all respondent scores in each service category are averaged to give a single score per service category:  

-Ability to create bespoke schedules
-Ability to manage equities as collateral
-Access to counterparties
-Accuracy of margin calls
-Breadth of market coverage
-Breadth of supported eligibility criteria
-Collateral re-use/re-hypothecation
-Dividend collection
-Handling of fails
-Implementation of collateral sets/schedules
-Level of STP offered
-Quality of client service
-Quality of reporting/client interface
-Quality of static data
-Substitution capability
-Timeliness of margin cells
-Timeliness of settlement