Brazilian central counterparty (CCP) BM&FBovespa processed 121,284 securities lending transactions in July, beating June’s total of 108,422 by 12,862...
The Central Bank of Ireland has claimed that there are strong grounds for limiting the collateral diversification relaxation set out in the revised version of the ESMA Guidelines on exchange-traded funds and other UCITS issues...
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) is to open an information repository for central clearing requirements for OTC derivatives to the public...
The combined margin financing and securities lending activity among 115 Chinese securities brokers increased a staggering 341.71 percent between the end of 2012 and the end of March this year, according to KPMG...
A review and amendment of the regulations regarding lending by banks operating in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been agreed upon at a meeting comprising the state’s regulatory bodies...
A “broadly applicable” margin requirement to protect against capital exiting short-term funding markets in the event of a financial crisis would make sense, a US Federal Reserve governor has reportedly said...
The chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority has welcomed the EU’s move to require securities finance transactions to be reported to trade repositories...
Authorised intermediaries can now enter into securities borrowing and lending agreements with clearing members in India, following market calls for the change...
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Reverse Repo Facility could encourage further development of the shadow banking system, according to president and CEO William Dudley...
A number of operators of European securities markets have announced that they will implement the migration to T+1 from T+2 for repo transactions and to T+2 from T+3 for cash transactions...
