by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Jun 2, 2014 | All, Formal Regulatory Remedies
The Staff of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has published a “A Primer on the GCF Repo® Service,” the overall goal of which is to to quantify to what extent dealers pursue various strategies trading GCF Repo. The paper’s abstract describes the...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | May 21, 2014 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Procedural Changes
The US Financial Stability Oversight Council has published its 2014 Annual Report which highlights, among other things, the activities of the Council, significant financial market and regulatory developments, an assessment of those developments on the stability of the...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Jan 30, 2014 | All, Change Overview and Rationale, Formal Regulatory Remedies
On January 29, 2014, the European Commission issued its long awaited proposal for the establishment of a central database for Secured Financing Transactions. This release is a part of a larger regulatory effort aimed at increasing the transparency of certain...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Nov 19, 2013 | All, Change Overview and Rationale
On November 5, 2013, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) launched the second stage of its two-stage quantitative impact study on the proposed regulatory framework for securities financing transactions. As you may recall, on August 29, 2013, the FSB published the...
by David Schwartz J.D. CPA | Oct 24, 2013 | All, Change Overview and Rationale
Is collateralized commercial paper (CCP) the the new “killer app” for liquidity? Finadium, a leading specialist research and advisory firm in the securities and investments industry, has published a a research report, “Collateralized Commercial...
