Cash prime brokerage: Difference between revisions

{{a|pb|}}[[Cash prime brokerage]] describes the traditional [[margin lending]] activity of an [[equity prime broker]], where the [[prime broker]] lends its clients cash for them to buy shares which the prime broker then holds in custody for the client, or lends its clients shares so they can sell them short and raise cash, which the clients deposit with the prime broker. In both cases the client takes title to actual securities, with all the implications for stamp duty and shareholder reporting that this entails, even though the shares are often sold or rehypothecated away afterwards. Cash prime brokerage is also described as “[[normal prime brokerage]]” or “[[full prime brokerage]]”, to distinguish it from “[[synthetic prime brokerage]]”, which is [[prime brokerage]] as described above, only done with [[derivatives]], so the client never gets title to the shares.