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RMA plays nice with FSB’s “shadow banking” recommendations

18 January 2013 Switzerland
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Committee on Securities Lending of the Risk Management Association has responded to the FSB on its proposals to toughen up regulation of “shadow banking”, praising the board’s efforts to understand the sector...

Singapore Exchange to race against the clock

09 January 2013 Singapore
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has promised to report daily short sales volumes for every counter to be a leader in transparency by March...

ASIC protects Australian money market funds

09 January 2013 Sydney
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The ASIC has said that idosyncracies in Australian money market funds mean that IOSCO concerns over their regulation does not apply to Australia...

Basel treads water until 2019

07 January 2013 Switzerland
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

After a Switzerland summit that saw bankers heatedly lobbying for more relaxed reforms, banks now have until 2019 to achieve a liquidity coverage ratio...

ESMA peers at interoperability in CCPs

04 January 2012 Paris
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

ESMA has published a consultation paper on guidelines regarding the assessment of interoperability arrangements for central counterparty clearing...

Irish central bank fines Aviva €2.45 million over securities lending

20 December 2012 Dublin
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Central Bank of Ireland has fined insurance firm Aviva because it failed to properly check and control its securities lending programme...

BNP Paribas launches Solvency II solution

19 December 2012 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

BNP Paribas Securities Services has launched its new Solvency II Capital Requirement Solution (SCR)...

ESMA starts clock on UCITS guidelines compliance

19 December 2012 Paris
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

National authorities of EU member states have two months to let the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) know whether they will comply with its consolidated guidelines on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and other UCITS issues...

We’re not ready for cleared OTC environment, say insurers

06 December 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Nearly half (46 percent) of insurers have either not yet initiated or concluded their impact assessment of changes mandated by EMIR and the Dodd-Frank Act...

Repo and reverse repo assets to be recallable in EU

05 December 2012 Paris
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

UCITS funds should only enter into repo and reverse repo agreements if they are able to recall assets or cash at any time, according to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA’s) latest guidelines...

Have your say on the FSB’s sec lending recommendations

21 November 2012 Switzerland
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

In its continued efforts to strengthen oversight and regulation of “shadow banking”, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) is asking for feedback on its thirteen recommendations...

J.P. Morgan waves goodbye to triparty repo intraday credit exposure

19 November 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

More than a third of J.P. Morgan’s intraday credit exposure that it experiences during the unwinding of triparty repos has been eliminated as the firm implements market reforms...

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