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Funds warm to Esma liquidity rules after Covid crisis
By Noah Zuss and Olesya Dmitracova
June 29, 2020, Risk
The heavy outflows from retail funds in March have softened the attitudes of some asset managers who were resistant to …
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Banks Get Easier Volcker Rule and $40 Billion Break on Swaps
By Jesse Hamilton
June 25, 2020, Bloomberg
Wall Street banks will soon be able to boost investments in venture capital funds and pocket billions of dollars they’ve had to set …
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US LEI proposal for commodity pools panned by global authority for not going far enough
By Neil Roland
June 19, 2020, MLex
A US proposal to require the use of legal entity identifiers by investment companies that trade swaps doesn’t open a big enough window …
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Investors Are Sitting on the Biggest Pile of Cash Ever
By Gunjan Banerji
June 16, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
Investors have rarely been this flush with cash.
Grappling with the most economic uncertainty in decades and a head-spinning stretch …
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The Name Game (Part 2): Will the SEC Recast US Fund Names?
By Adrian Whelan, Brown Brothers Harriman
Originally published at the On the Regs blog
“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”
–Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Have investment funds averted a liquidity crisis?
By Siobhan Riding
May 5, 2020, Financial Times
In the third week of March, when the dizzying market swings caused by the coronavirus emergency were at their peak, the eyes …
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Demand Wanes for Fed’s Initial Crisis Programs With Market Calm
By Christopher Condon and Alex Harris
April 24, 2020, Bloomberg
The initial wave of emergency lending programs opened during the coronavirus crisis by the Federal Reserve saw little to no …
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COVID-19: Regulators and Funds Swing Into Action
By Adrian Whelan, Brown Brothers Harriman
Originally published at the On the Regs blog
For the time being, COVID-19 casts its shadow over every aspect of global asset management. The …
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Upcoming rules that could change advice landscape
By Simon Thomas
April 15, 2020, FTAdviser
With the news agenda very much dictated by Covid-19 it is easy to forget about the other things on the horizon which may …
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SEC Revamps its Fair Valuation Rules
By Caitriona Flynn, Brown Brothers Harriman
Originally published at the On the Regs blog
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently voted to propose a new rule under the Investment …
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