The practice of using financial instruments to borrow funds is known only to a small circle in the industry, though it has a turnover of trillion dollars each day. Following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007/2008, regulators around the world started to tackle the part of the shadow banking known as Securities Financing Transactions, but …
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today a consultation paper on draft technical standards implementing the Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR), which aims to increase the transparency of shadow banking activities. Securities financing transactions (SFTs) are transactions where securities are used to borrow cash (or other higher investment-grade securities), or vice versa …
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Steven Maijoor, Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), today gave a speech at the International Securities Lending Association’s (ISLA) 25th Annual Securities Finance and Collateral Management Conference. The speech covers issues related to the availability of collateral and the reporting of repos and securities lending trades. He highlighted the importance of collateral …
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published the responses received to the Discussion Paper on draft RTS and ITS under the Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR). The SFTR, published in December 2015, is the European Union’s response to the global initiative to bring more transparency to shadow banking activities. The new rules on …
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