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Prime brokerage “not an option” for CLO financing

05 August 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

New risk retention rules will dramatically shrink the collateralised loan obligation market, and prime brokers will not help the situation, said The Loan Syndications and Trading Association in a letter to US regulators...

New report argues in favour of naked shorting

29 July 2013 Texas
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Accounting fundamentals are highly significant in explaining naked short sales, according to a recent study...

Bursa Malaysia to revitalise SBL and short selling

19 July 2013 Kuala Lumpur
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Kuala Lumpur’s stock exchange Bursa Malaysia will reportedly release new guidelines next week for both SBL and short selling...

European Parliament proposes alterations to the FTT

18 July 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The European Parliament vote in favour of the financial transaction tax approved the commission’s proposal—subject to certain proposed amendments...

UK bans short selling in Portuguese bank shares

05 July 2013 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The shares of three Portuguese banks were banned from short selling in the UK on 4 July. The Financial Conduct Authority imposed the ban, which was in force between 8am and 11.59pm, because of the volatility of recent trading...

Greece may be back in the short selling game

01 July 2013 Athens
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

It has been reported that Greece's capital markets regulator will lift a short selling ban now that the country's major banks have been recapitalised...

IOSCO addresses impact of ETF regulation on lending

25 June 2012 Madrid
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Large ETF providers in some jurisdictions have substantially increased the disclosure to investors regarding the collateral held and the use of securities lending, as well as the management of counterparty risk, said IOSCO...

ISLA conference: FTT could cost

20 June 2013 Prague
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The EU Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) would make it difficult to earn a profit from securities lending and repo if it is enacted in its current form, according to panellists at ISLA's annual conference...

ISLA conference: more than just data

20 June 2013 Prague
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Trade repositories will not reduce the potential for systematic risk in the securities lending market, according to an audience survey at the International Securities Lending Association’s annual conference in Prague...

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