The US Federal Reserve has suggested establishing a fixed-rate, full-allotment overnight reverse repurchase agreement facility as an additional tool for managing money market interest rates...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘Shadow banking’ was one of the worst terms that could have been coined to describe activities such as securities lending, according to Steven Maijoor of the European Securities and Markets Authority...
