Regulatory

Volcker Rule exempts Repo and Sec Lending….or will it?

Will CCPs force pension funds out of OTC derivatives?

Sure enough, seclending and repo are central to financial markets

From the ERC a new paper, "Haircuts and initial margins in the repo market"

A winning attitude from a securities lending agent

Euromoney interview with IMF Economist Manmohan Singh on repo, re-hypothecation, collateral chains, and more

Nine takeaways from the Clearstream Global Securities Financing conference regulatory panel

Clearing houses: the next casualty of the crisis? – Reuters

Data management challenges in securities finance

China and others enter securities lending; agents and prime brokers face changing market structure

Now everyone is a repo trader

Regulation SHO Woes: Finra Fines Credit Suisse $1.75 Million For Alleged Violations

The Fed gets down to the nuts of bolts of monitoring repo and seclending

Will tax rules fundamentally change the financing markets?

Has MF Global Revealed a Fatal Flaw in CCP Margin Procedures? An Analysis of MF Global’s Margin Failure

Dividend Arbitrage: Good, Bad or Indifferent in Today's Market?

A Serious Conversation About Sovereigns Posting Collateral, At Last

Financial taxes, seclending and haircuts in the repo market

Basel III LCR rules may change, allowing corporates and equities. Nestle debt looks a whole lot better than Portugal.

Repo in 2012: high quality paper scarce, risker paper increasingly harder to fund

ESMA to focus on physical ETFs and securities lending – Financial News

European short selling bans and CCPs on BoE committee's agenda: SLT

Satyajit Das, author ‘Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk’ talks to the FT on CCPs

In echos of Lehman and MF Global, SEC fines a BD for repo fraud

How was MF Global able to leverage themselves so much? The answer lies in the repo market.

FT: Dodd-Frank’s long-distance paper chase

BW: BNP, SocGen Speed Up Trading-Book Cuts to Skirt Capital Aid

Derivsource: Collateral Transformation, Silver Bullet or Smoke and Mirrors?

UBS Fined $12M for Failure to Comply on Short Sale Regulations (Reg SHO)

Bank of England's Tucker: "There is a big gap in the regimes for CCPs – what happens if they go bust? I can tell you the simple answer: mayhem."

FRB-NY Money and Payments Workshop Examines Repo Market Reform

UK regulators scrutinizing collateral upgrade trades

Hong Kong regulators deny market declines a result of short selling – SLT

CME's Donahoe: more collateral upgrades needed for OTC derivatives

Is Repo for Speculation?

The "Oops I Did It Again" theory of inflation

New York Fed May Seek Liquidity Details From European Banks

Why do regulators think that banning short selling is the answer?

Fed research on bank liquidity during the recent credit crisis

IMN 16th Annual European Beneficial Owners Securities Lending Conference: some common themes

EU Proposes $78 Billion-a-Year Financial Transaction Tax to Start in 2014 – Bloomberg

Regulation-driven technology key theme at Sibos – AST

Volcker Rule likely a non-issue for securities lending and repo – FT/WSJ

New platform from Newedge and MTS to target corporates to lending cash, will collateralize using tri-party infrastructure

Comments from SIBOS: DTCC's Bodson says CCPs not necessarily safer for OTC clearing

Finadium conference highlights

CCP interoperability will not resolve fragmentation in the OTC markets, say panelists at ISDA Europe conference in London

A Europe Update from our friend Sam Kassahun

Draft Report exempts Repo and Sec Lending from the Volcker Rule