by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Jan 26, 2015 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it will hold a February 19 public roundtable discussion on improving the proxy voting process. The roundtable, which will be held at the SEC’s Washington, DC headquarters, will focus on universal proxy...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Jan 20, 2015 | All, Disclosure Regimes, Formal Regulatory Remedies
The SEC has issued final rules governing security-based swap data repositories (SDRs) prescribing reporting to regulators and setting public disclosure requirements for security-based swap transaction data. These new rules implement mandates under Title VII of the...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Dec 29, 2014 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
In October 2014, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) adopted final standards for the “net stable funding ratio” (NSFR), the last plank in the Basel III banking reforms. The NSFR was first proposed in 2009, and elicited much concern from the industry...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Dec 20, 2014 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Cross-Post, Formal Regulatory Remedies
Borrower default indemnification, sometimes referred to as a “securities replacement guarantee,” is fairly common in the securities lending industry. Under the typical arrangement, should a borrower of a security fail to return it at the end of the loan, the...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Nov 19, 2014 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
The G20’s meeting in Brisbane begins tomorrow, and international working groups have been burning the midnight oil to have their progress reports ready in time. One such group, the OTC Derivatives Regulator Group (ODRG)*, issued a report on November 7 that...
