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The LSTA Recommends Treating November 11 as a Loan Market Holiday When Calculating Delayed Compensation

Delayed compensation accrues on loan market trades that do not settle within a set number of business days after trade date.

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The LSTA Recommends Treating November 26 as Loan Market Holiday When Calculating Delayed Compensation

Delayed compensation accrues on loan market trades that do not settle within a set number of business days after trade date.

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Markit Entity Identifiers 'MEIs'

As part of a broad identification system for the loan market, Markit and Standard & Poor’s CUSIP Service Bureau have collaborated to issue unique identifiers for each loan market entity.

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Guidelines - Know Your Customer (KYC)

Know Your Customer (KYC) Guidelines have been published by the LSTA to identify clients and counterparties and ascertain relevant information pertinent to doing business with them.

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2010 Loan Market 'Holidays' - Calculation of Delayed Compensation

Delayed compensation accrues on loan market trades that do not settle within a set number of business days after trade date.

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The LSTA Recommends Treating October 12 as Loan Market Holiday When Calculating Delayed Compensation

Delayed compensation accrues on loan market trades that do not settle within a set number of business days after trade date.

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Legal Alerts

Issues of Importance Concerning the Assignment of Litigation Claims

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LSTA Issues Principles for the Communication and Use of Confidential Information by Loan Market Participants

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The Supreme Court Denies Review of In Re Owens Corning

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New York State’s High Court Finds State Jurisdiction Reaches E-Mail and Instant Messages

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Cooper-Standard Credit Agreement Summary of the CAM Exchange

On behalf of Cooper Standard, Deutsche Bank has authorized the LSTA to distribute to market participants this memorandum regarding the Cooper Standard CAM provisions.

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LSTA News

Important Legal Victory For The Syndicated Loan Market

In an important victory for the syndicated loan market, the New York Court of Appeals unanimously ruled on Thursday that it is not unreasonable as a matter of law for lenders to rely on representations and warranties in a credit agreement regarding the accuracy of unaudited financial statements without conducting their own investigation of the statements and questioning those who prepared them.

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Impact of Financial Regulatory Reform Bill on the CLO and Loan Market

At 5:39am on the morning of Friday, June 25th, following a marathon session, lawmakers completed the Conference Committee process for the financial regulatory reform bill. 

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Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 2019

The Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules has made sweeping revisions to proposed Bankruptcy Rule 2019 and his largely adopted the changes suggested by the LSTA.  Of particular importance to the loan market, the rule will no longer require the disclosure of the price paid for a claim in bankuptcy and the date acquired (except in very limited circumstances) in Rule 2019 verified statements.

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LSTA issues Comment Letter on SEC’s Regulation AB

The LSTA issued a comment letter on the SEC's proposed changes to Regulation AB, noting that applying the Reg AB requirements uniformly to all asset classes has the potential to disrupt securitization in discrete and unique asset classes.

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LSTA Issues White Paper on Syndicated Loans and CLOs

The LSTA issued a White Paper that discussed the importance of syndicated loans and CLOs to U.S. companies.

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LSTA Website Login Issues

As of this morning issues with our members gaining access to our site has been resolved.  But if you are still experiencing some issues, please contact us at 212.880.3000.

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Press Releases

LSTA Elects 2010 Board of Directors

The LSTA announced today the election of its 2010 Board of Directors and the selection of Invesco’s Greg Stoeckle as Chair. Credit Suisse’s Tom Newberry will continue his service on the Board and will become Vice Chair, along with Stanfield’s David Frey. Nomura’s Rick Stewart was re-elected Treasurer and Kevin Burke, from GE Capital, was chosen to serve as Secretary.

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The LSTA Recommends Treating December 25 and January 1, 2010 as Loan Market Holidays When Calculating Delayed Compensation

December 21, 2009

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The LSTA Recommends Treating May 31 as Loan Market Holiday When Calculating Delayed Compensation

May 21, 2010

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The LSTA Recommends Treating July 5th as Loan Market Holiday When Calculating Delayed Compensation

In observance of the U.S. Independence Day holiday, the Loan Syndications and Trading Assocation (LSTA) recommends treating Monday, July 5, 2010 as a loan market holiday for purposes of calculating delayed compensation under the LSTA standard forms of trade confirmation.

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The LSTA Recommends Treating September 6 as Loan Market Holiday When Calculating Delayed Compensation

In observance of the U.S. Labor Day holiday, the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) recommends treating Monday, September 6, as a loan market holiday for purposes of calculating delayed compensation under the LSTA standard forms of trade confirmation.

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LSTA Responds to Wall Street Journal Article

Friday’s Wall Street Journal ran a rather incomplete article on Floating Rate bank loan funds. Aside from missing several key features of the asset class, the writer included several "headline grabbing" quotes from sources far outside the major practitioners of the industry. While it would be easy to dismiss the article,  we understand that investors are sensitive to what they see in the press, so we have taken a few moments to outline the following counter-points. 

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