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22 May 2008

ASLA fights back

Read more: ASLA fights back Australian Securities Lending Association margin lending

This letter is the Australian Securities Lending Association's (ASLA's) response to recent concerns and confusion surrounding securities lending, short selling and margin lending. Securities lending provides the market with essential liquidity within the equity market. Regulators and academic analysis from around the globe confirm securities lending not only adds liquidity which leads to price discovery and transparency, it also reduces volatility.

For this reason India and China are proposing to introduce securities lending within their markets. So do organisations borrow to influence the outcome of voting?...


 

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