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William Birdthistle Director, Division of Investment Management

SEC's Birdthistle: "The population of private funds in this country stands currently at almost 100,000, approximately 54,000 of which are advised by SEC-registered investment advisers and 40,000 by SEC-exempt reporting advisers."

Highlights: * "The population of private funds in this country stands currently at almost 100,000, approximately 54,000 of which are advised by SEC-registered investment advisers and 40,000 by SEC-exempt reporting advisers." * "The former comprise more than $21 trillion in gross assets under management; the latter,
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Summary of responses and comments to CSA/IIROC Staff Notice 23-329 Short Selling in Canada.

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) today published a summary of responses and comments to CSA/IIROC Staff Notice 23-329 Short Selling in Canada.

Comments: Wut Mean?: * The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC/CIRO) published Staff Notice 23-329, requesting public feedback on short selling regulations. * They received 23 comments from various stakeholders. The comments showed no consensus on the ideal regulatory regime for short selling, ranging
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Final Rule on Special Assessment Pursuant to Systematic Risk Determination

Today the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Board of Directors by notational vote approved: Final Rule on Special Assessment Pursuant to Systematic Risk Determination

Fact Sheet: Press Release: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Board of Directors today approved a final rule to implement a special assessment to recover the loss to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) associated with protecting uninsured depositors following the closures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. The Federal
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Vice Chair for Supervision Michael S. Barr

Fed's Barr: "their highly leveraged positions in Treasury markets are facilitated by very low, or even zero, haircuts on their repo financing; & that demand for this leverage is highly concentrated among a handful of large hedge funds"

Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/barr20231116a.htm Highlights: * "As I mentioned, as yields on deposit alternatives, such as money funds, increased as our tightening cycle took hold, banks found they needed to start paying higher interest rates to retain deposits and pay up for alternative sources of
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Commissioner Hester M. Peirce

Peirce on New Conflicts of Interest Rule: "micromanages clearing agency governance in a way that is likely to divert board attention from key issues by focusing it instead on an amorphous set of stakeholders. Accordingly, I dissent."

Source: https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/peirce-governance-20231116 Clearing agencies play a critical role in our markets. Therefore, sound regulation of clearing agencies should be a priority for the Commission. The approach embodied in the final rule, however, micromanages clearing agency governance in a way that is likely to divert
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Joint Statement by Vice Chairman Travis Hill and Director Jonathan McKernan on FDIC Workplace Culture

FDIC Alert! After a call out in the WSJ for a 'Toxic atmosphere' full of strip clubs, dick pics, & booze, FDIC releases additional statement announcing opening an Independent Review 'Workplace culture'.

As we covered yesterday, earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal called out the FDIC's toxic work environment: This was also picked up by u/chikaca over at r/Superstonk: Today Chairman Travis Hill and Director Jonathan McKernan are back with an additional statement: This has been a
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