NEWS

Welcome

Securities borrowing and lending is a very competitive business. While individual firms involved in the business may have their own unique marketing and business development strategies in Asia, the member firms believe that PASLA, as a collective group of major firms in the industry, provides an important benefit to Asian securities regulators, stock exchanges, and monetary authorities by providing an "industry consensus" on issues that affect the development of the securities lending business.

Read "An Introduction to Securities Lending" click the following link ....

Events

We are one of the Endorsers supporting “ASIFMA’s India Repo Markets Workshop”, to be held on 25 March 2014 in Mumbai, India. Members can enjoy the discounted delegate fee at INR 2,000 per person (original at INR 2,400).

For details and enrolment, please refer to the invitation below.

Workshop Invitation

Workshop Agenda

If you are interested to attend, please pre-register by Friday, 7 March 2014, to Evelyn Wong (ewong@asifma.org) to reserve a seat.* Seats are served on first-come-first-served basis.

* ASIFMA will notify the pre-registered delegates in mid-March to settle the delegate fee payment for confirming your attendance.

For inquiry, please contact Evelyn Wong of ASIFMA at ewong@asifma.org. Thank you.

PASLA and RMA are excited to announce that Hiromi Yamaoka, Director-General, Head of Financial Markets Department, Bank of Japan will give opening remarks at the 11th Annual PASLA/RMA Conference on Asian Securities Lending. The conference will be held in Tokyo Japan at The Conrad Tokyo, 4-6 March 2014.

The conference will kick off Tuesday, 4 March with the Securities Lending Tutorial which will be given in concurrent sessions in both Japanese and English. In addition, we will continue the Legal and Regulatory updates on both a global and regional basis. Participants will include representative counsel and senior business leaders explaining the possible ramifications to the industry.

The business program for Wednesday and Thursday will start with industry leaders discussing the future of securities finance, a panel that will debate issues on both a global and regional level. In addition, some other topics to be discussed during this year's conference are:

•Securities Lending and Borrowing in the Japanese Market

•Regional Fixed Income and Repo Trading Outlook

•Collateral Leaders panel

•Global Legal and Regulatory Issues led by Greg Lyons of Debevoise & Plimpton

•Regional Legal and Regulatory Issues led by Paget DareBryan of Clifford Chance

REGISTRATION:

Conference registration is only available online by visiting the Conference Website. A list of registrants is also available there. A username and Password is required to complete the online registration process.

RESERVATION:

The Conrad Tokyo is the venue for the conference. A conference reservation rate is available to all conference attendees. Please visit the Conference Website.

SPONSORSHIP & EXHIBITING:

Exhibiting and registration information, please email Rose Casler at rcasler@rmahq.org

Sponsorship information, please email Kimberly Gordon at KGordon@rmahq.org

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in Tokyo!

Headlines

PHILIPPINES: PSE seeks comments on short selling guidelines (09 Mar 2014)

MALAYSIA: Bursa Malaysia increases number of securities eligible for borrowing and lending (06 Mar 2014)

Notice of PASLA 2014 AGM (04 Mar 2014)

HONG KONG: Changes to the list of securities designated for short selling (09 Feb 2014)

TAIWAN: TWSE to loosen restrictions on Securities Borrowing and Lending (22 Dec 2013)

KOREA: Increased penalty against naked short selling (19 Dec 2013)

KOREA: Proposed amendments to rules on intermediation of KSD SBL transactions (19 Dec 2013)

MALAYSIA: Bursa Malaysia allows transfer of securities from corporate actions in SBL contracts (11 Dec 2013)

KOREA: Amendments to KSFC SBL transactions regulation (04 Dec 2013)

KOREA: FSC to lift short sale ban on financial stocks from 14 November 2013 (13 Nov 2013)