Earlier this year, OCC received regulatory approval to update our clearing membership criteria allowing banks to apply for membership. OCC's Oberon Knapp, Head of Securities Lending, and Sheila Zak, Executive Director of Member Services, spoke with Securities Finance Times reporter Carmella Haswell about the changes and other enhancements in the works. The article appeared in SFT's magazine for The Risk Management Association's 38th annual Securities Finance & Collateral Management Conference.