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Remarks by Ronald Brand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Ronald Brand*
Affiliation:
Boston College Law School

Abstract

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Type
Internationalization of the Securities Markets
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1988

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References

1 27 ILM 524 (1988).

2 [1982] PROC. AM. SOC. INT’L L. 353.

3 NIFs and RUFs are transactions in which a bank that is acting as a sales agent for a corporate issuer’s notes (NIF = Note Issuance Facility; RU = Revolving Underwriting Facility) promises the issuer that if the notes do not sell as anticipated, the bank will make a loan to the issuer in the amount of the unplaced notes. The financial statements of the bank do not reflect this promise, since it is a contingent one, but the bank is incurring a risk that it will be making a loan to a corporation at the very moment that the market has decided it does not wish to hold the corporation’s obligations. Hence a system of capital adequacy requirements that takes risk into account will require capital to be held against the bank’s contingent obligation under the Note Issuance Facility.

4 S. 1986, 100th Cong., 2d Sess. (1987), 134 Cong. Rec. S3437 (March 30, 1988).

5 S. Rep. 305, 100th Cong., 2nd Sess. (1987), to accompany S. 1886, at p. 73.

6 19 SEC. REG. & L. REP. 1303 (8/21/87).