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Canada to expand accepted securities for lending

14 November 2012 Toronto
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Securities lenders and borrowers in Canada will soon be able to trade any trust that is listed on a stock exchange after the country’s minister of finance, Jim Flaherty, tabled a motion to implement outstanding technical tax amendments...

US digs in heels for Basel III

13 November 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

SIFMA released a statement saying that the 1 January 2013 effective date of Basel III capital rules would be pushed back....

Short selling regulation comes into effect

01 November 2012 Europe
Reporter: Jenna Jones

The EU regulation on short selling and aspects of credit default swaps applies as of today, 1 November 2012...

Spain extends short selling ban

23 October 2012 Madrid
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Spain’s regulator the CNMV has decided to extend a ban on short selling for an additional week and has submitted a proposal to ESMA to impose a further three month ban, effective from 1 November 2012...

FATCA prompts Americans to relinquish citizenship

22 October 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

American citizens who live outside of the US are increasingly considering renouncing their US citizenship as the government prepares to roll out FATCA, said the chief executive of a financial advisory firm...

Flash crash reforms may not be enough

19 October 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Researchers have claimed that US ‘flash crash’ reforms will fail to avert another market meltdown unless they are coupled with new liquidity-based circuit breakers...

IOSCO Money Market Fund reforms address NAVs

11 October 2012 Madrid
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The International Organization of Securities Commission (IOSCO) has published a final report on policy recommendations for Money Market Funds...

ASIC threatens second short selling ban

24 September 2012 Canberra
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Australian regulators have said that a new ban on short selling will be implemented if a situation similar to the global financial crisis reoccurs...

SunGard aids short selling regulation for Warsaw Stock Exchange

24 September 2012 Warsaw
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) has chosen SunGard’s Protegent compliance solution and Valdi electronic trading tools for real-time surveillance and monitoring of trading activity on the exchange...

US SEC drops MMF proposals

28 August 2012 Washington, DC
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Proposals that would have reformed the multi-trillion dollar US money market fund (MMF) industry were dropped after three US SEC commissioners objected to them...

Moody's: OTC regulations could lead to riskier investments

27 August 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Funds could invest more heavily in collateral-eligible liquid, high-quality government securities when new OTC derivatives regulations take hold worldwide...

Nigeria names securities lending agents

21 August 2012 Lagos
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Nigeria Securities & Exchange Commission has approved United Bank of Africa (UBA) and Stanbic IBTC as securities lending agents for equities and bond transactions at the Nigeria Stock Exchange, according to reports...

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