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3 times now in the last 5 days hedge funds have been called out for receiving the vast majority of their repo financing in the non-centrally cleared market, where haircuts or initial margin requirements are not necessarily applied and that this might create greater risk in times of stress. Why?

by Dismal-Jellyfish Looks like the Nellie Liang description was cutoff–here it is in full: “Staff at FSOC member agencies have been working to improve monitoring systems to identify potential emerging financial stability risks posed by highly-leveraged hedge funds. Work in this regard …

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Initial Reports Say American Newspapers Are Under Cyberattack By Foreign Entity, And Is Preventing Distribution

Initial Reports Say American Newspapers Are Under Cyberattack By Foreign Entity, And Is Preventing Distribution “#BREAKING: Initial reports that a cyberattack from a “foreign entity’ has hit newspapers across the United States, preventing distribution of well-known papers such as the …

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Trump administration takes initial regulatory step to bar migrants who enter the U.S. from border from qualifying for asylum

by Dr. Eowyn The New York Times reports that yesterday, invoking national security powers to protect the United States against threats from abroad, the Trump administration announced new immigration rules giving the President new authority to deny asylum to “migrants” who illegally cross the …

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