Wednesday, January 5, 2022

FIRST DO NO HARM

A Hippocratic Oath for Securities Lenders

Author: Ed Blount

If the Securities and Exchange Commission approves the many industry requests for delay of its proposed 10c-1 reporting rule for securities loans, leaders in the Global Association of Securities Lending Associations (GASLA) should move quickly to create a more efficient and lower cost disclosure regime.

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Thursday, December 30, 2021

Digitized Finance Testing Approved by European Union

Buy-in Agreement clears the way for DLT Settlement Pilot

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA

The European Commission has reached agreement with legislators and financial trade groups on a digitized infrastructure to reshape the EU and, by extension, the global securities markets. The resolution affects all transactions involving EU securities, including securities loans, by (1) green-lighting the Distributed Ledger Pilot Regime, an effort to foster fintech innovation in the EU, and (2) delaying mandatory buy-ins, a highly contentious aspect of the ongoing sweeping reforms to the EU's securities settlement system. 

 

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Beneficial Owners: "Most at risk, yet least served" by Disclosures

Comments to SEC on Proposed 10c-1 Reporting by Securities Lenders

Author: Ed Blount

CSFME comments on proposed Rule 10c-1, as submitted 15 December 2021 to the Securities and Exchange Commission:

"With regard to the above-cited 10c-1 disclosure system, my colleagues and I consider inclusion in the rule proposal of an optional section on alternatives to be a genuine invitation to propose reasonable changes. We assume that the Commission must already realize that the mandated disclosure system, as currently proposed, will likely not achieve its goals.

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Monday, December 13, 2021

“Wisely and Slow; They Stumble that Run Fast.”

Finding a Better Value Proposition for the SEC's Sec Lending Disclosure Rule

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA

The SEC has proposed a radical and potentially very costly reporting regime for securities finance transactions to increase transparency "to brokers, dealers, and investors."  While there is no requirement for the Commission to discuss or examine the economic effects of regulatory alternatives, in this case, they have included some alternatives it could consider to the reporting structure they propose, presumably to focus potential commenters on specific ideas they want explored. The Commission has seemingly outsourced the economic analysis of its suggested alternatives to industry commenters. Also, by doing so, the Commission has hinted it is interested in hearing about well-supported alternatives, and may even be inviting counter-proposals. 

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Monday, December 6, 2021

Selling Transparency: A Bean Counter's Blog

NEW DATA MODEL FOR SECURITIES FINANCE

Author: Ed Blount

A new disclosure data model has just been proposed by the SEC for U.S. securities lenders. Adoption of the model, called 10c-1 after the revised regulation, would be “one of the most drastic adjustments in the history of the securities lending industry,” writes Sidley Austin, a leading Wall Street law firm and advisor to broker-dealers. Previously, we have explained the proposal and intended benefits. Now we begin to analyze the proposed 10c-1 disclosure system’s value proposition. Will disclosure help more than it will cost to create and manage the network that supports the new disclosure system?

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