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*[[ISLA]]: International Securities Lending Association. The {{gmsla}} and its American cousin the {{msla}} | *[[ISLA]]: International Securities Lending Association. The {{gmsla}} and its American cousin the {{msla}} | ||
*[[ICMA]]: [[International Capital Markets Association]]. [[Repo]]s are their main bag. They publish the [[GMRA]] and [[MRA]]. Once were called the [[Bond Market Association]] | *[[ICMA]]: [[International Capital Markets Association]]. [[Repo]]s are their main bag. They publish the [[GMRA]] and [[MRA]]. Once were called the [[Bond Market Association]] | ||
*[[ | *'''[[UK Finance]]''': The artist formerly known as the [[British Bankers’ Association]]. Their main contribution to the world of finance was, ah, [[LIBOR]]. Oh dear. Oh, dear, oh dear. Now they don’t touch interbank rates with a barge-pole — no-one would let them even if they wanted to — so they restrict their activities to “enhanc[ing] competitiveness, support[ing] customers and facilitating] innovation”. So that’s nice. | ||
Fun fact: the collective noun for a group of [[industry associations]] — seldom used, because so rare and disconsolate are the circumstances in which they get together — is a [[torpidity]]. | Fun fact: the collective noun for a group of [[industry associations]] — seldom used, because so rare and disconsolate are the circumstances in which they get together — is a [[torpidity]]. | ||