Industry association: Difference between revisions

*'''[[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 association]]s — seldom used, because so rare and disconsolate are the circumstances in which they get together<ref>Such as drafting a standard disclosure notice that [[Stock lending|stock lenders]] could send to each other advising themselves that their [[title transfer]] arrangements are arrangements involving the [[Title transfer|transfer of title]]</ref> — is a “[[torpidity]]”.

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