by David Schwartz J.D. CPA, Executive Director | Jun 20, 2013 | All
Time is running out for those who are unhappy with the settlements of some 930,000 Lehman derivatives contracts. With the statute of limitations running out on filing Lehman derivatives disputes, a flood of new cases is expected from parties holding these contracts...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA, Executive Director | Jun 19, 2013 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
The Risk Management Association’s Committee on Securities Lending has filed a 40-page response to the Financial Stability Board’s recent whitepaper on shadow banking, focusing on its recommendations regarding securities lending and repo. The January 14,...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA, Executive Director | Jun 19, 2013 | All, Procedural Changes
Some optimisation techniques are still taking shape due to a lack of clarity around new regulations. However, some elements must naturally precede others before it is possible to reach the next level. Post crisis regulatory changes have had dramatic effects on the...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA, Executive Director | Jun 19, 2013 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
In an October 14, 2013 address, William C. Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, expressed some lingering concerns he and the Fed have about the tri-party repo market. Despite the reform efforts of both regulators and...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA, Executive Director | Jun 19, 2013 | All, Formal Regulatory Remedies
The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has announced that it will hear a challenge to EU short selling regulations on June 11, 2013. Britain’s finance ministry filed the legal challenge in June of 2012 against the European Union in an effort to limit the European...
