by Ed Blount, Dan Hammond | Nov 6, 2023 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Commentary, Cross-Post, Disclosure Regimes
On April 2nd, 2026, an effusion of data from a daily trove of U.S. regulatory filings will create resources to drive many new use cases for artificial intelligence in capital markets. A clear opportunity exists in securities finance, where practitioners have...
by Ed Blount | Oct 27, 2023 | Commentary, Cross-Post, Disclosure Regimes
Data engineering by Dan Hammond When, on October 13, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission released its long-awaited final 10c-1 rule on reporting and public disclosure of securities loans (explained here), the most important passage, at least to the commercial...
by Ed Blount, Dan Hammond | Sep 27, 2023 | All, Commentary, Cross-Post
By Ed Blount and Dan Hammond “In a matter of days, the companies at the center of Archegos’s trading scheme lost more than $100 billion in market capitalization, Archegos owed billions of dollars more than it had on hand, and Archegos collapsed.”U.S. Federal...
by Ed Blount | Jan 17, 2022 | All, Commentary, Cross-Post
“The best trader I ever knew was broken when he took over a dying friend’s book. Everyone knew the book and turned on him.” Born in 1899, Henry Goldberg was the oldest trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange when I interviewed him in 1985. He answered...
by Ed Blount | Jan 5, 2022 | All, Commentary, Cross-Post, Disclosure Regimes
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)[1] should move quickly to create a more...