The EU watchdog has endorsed several long-term bans on all forms of short positions following several days of extreme volatility driven by the COVID-19 pandemic
ISLA and ICMA have sent a joint letter to ESMA requesting a delay to SFTR until October to mitigate the huge strain put on in-scope firms to meet the current April deadline in the midst of a global pandemic
The FCA has so far stopped short of imposing a short selling ban on any UK stocks and is unlikely to do so, according to Nick Bayley, managing director and head of Duff & Phelps’ compliance and regulatory consulting practice
The ban is in effect for Friday’s trading sessions and applies to all liquid shares whose price has fell by more than 10 percent and all illiquid shares whose price that fell by more than 20 percent on Thursday
AFME’s recommendations aim to encourage greater and more harmonised use of partial settlement across the industry as a way of improving settlement rates
The new report modeller includes repo fields required to support structured finance trades, and therefore now supports all reportable products under ISLA’s governance
The International Capital Market Association has gifted securities finance market participants a new comprehensive guide for reporting repos under SFTR
The new initiative will provide the Hazeltree buy-side community with seamless margin calculations for their entire margin workflow, all in a single cloud solution
