The improved securities lending programmes of EU national central banks has been praised by the industry as a crucial antidote to the year-end liquidity woes last month, according to ICMA
Bans on short selling should instead only stop further increasing of net short positions, according to ESMA in its latest short selling regulation release
The Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong has proposed additional safeguards on the use of securities lending, repo, and derivatives and added a new chapter on ETFs in a new consultation
ESMA released draft guidelines that ask whether CCPs should monitor the efficiency of its anti-procyclicality margin measures through developing quantitative metrics