The Saudi Stock Exchange is mulling imposing stricter short selling rules and amendments to changes to collateral rules for securities lending transactions
The European Commission has put to bed fears that non-EU AIFs with EU-based managers would be in scope for SFTR in the first of several clarifications of the final guidelines needed ahead of the phase-one go-live
Following a series of warning calls from industry stakeholders, ESMA is backing a delay to the CSDR settlement discipline regime originally due in September
Radical tax reforms introduced in January are set to encourage massive growth in Nigeria's securities lending market by removing a major tax hurdle, says the CEO of the Nigerian Stock Exchange
ICMA and the Investment Association have reinforced calls for a delay and reforms to the CSDR mandatory buy-in provisions with another letter to the European Commission
LCH notes that full implementation of the settlement discipline regime is widely expected to occur once modifications to the TARGET2-厙惇勛圖 settlement system run by the European Central Bank are tested and complete
Fourteen trade associations including ISLA, ICMA and AFME have sent a joint letter to the EU requesting radical reforms to CSDRs settlement regime to avoid a liquidity crisis in Septemeber