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A securities Based lending (SBL) is a loan that uses your investment portfolio as collateral. Rather than selling your stocks or bonds for cash, borrow against them and use the funds for whatever you need. Securities-based lending offers many benefits to investors, including low-interest rates, flexible repayment terms, and the…

Most of the public assumes that a stock exchange is just a marketplace where people buy or sell stocks. That is a correct assumption. But that is not all that a stock exchange is. Defining a Stock Exchange in a more particular sense, they are really firms or an organization…

From the perspective of the lender, stock loans can have a number of pitfalls if not handled correctly. Usually, this occurs as a result of an unscrupulous third-party lender attempting to operate outside standard guidelines. These lenders often market their loans as "non-recourse" in nature, which means that there is…

Before anything else, it must be said that if you are looking at the stock market as a launchpad to become the next Warren Buffett or George Soros, then you are in the wrong career. The possibility of that occurring is like winning the Powerball lottery for $300 million in…

Although stock trading is synonymous with Wall Street, it wasn`t the first stock exchange in the US. That honor actually belonged to the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, which predated the New York Stock Exchange by two years. The early days of stock trading may be compared to an extremely elite club…

Trading of financial instruments at first started to be very straightforward. It goes from one creditor to one debtor. In the 1100`s agricultural debts in France have started to be bought and sold by merchants, giving rise to a market dealing not with fruits and vegetables, but with paper representing…

The stock exchange has existed for 200 years now, and yet it`s still a mystery to some people who think that wealth is concentrated among the rich and moneyed who manipulate the bourse for their own benefit. Perhaps it`s best to demystify stock exchanges by comparing it to your local…

Simply put, a stock is a certificate that represents ownership of a said corporation, and the amount of ownership is based on how many shares one possesses in relation to how many shares are outstanding (i.e. how many shares are present in the market). While it is a unit of…

Borrowing against the stocks in your portfolio comes with inherent risks, just as any financial maneuver might. But it is important to understand the nature of the risk involved and how it might differ from taking out a regular loan from the bank. By understanding these risks, investors can make…

A popular misconception of a financially secure investor is that he has large amounts of spendable money at his disposal. This is often not true due to the very thing that makes him financially secure. Investments in the stock market take a lot of money and often use much of…

The International Securities Lending Association or ISLA is an industry trade group that was founded to represent the common interests of the Securities Lending Sector. With its headquarters in the United Kingdom, the main members are financial service firms from the UK and Europe. These said financial firms deal with…

What is a stock exchange? To put it simply, a stock exchange is basically a marketplace where people can buy and sell products, but the products are financial in nature, specifically equities, bonds and other financial products. One important thing to note: only listed securities can be traded in an…

Securities lending happens whenever an owner of a financial tradable asset loans his or her asset to a borrower, most often with a fee. As a refresher, securities are financial instruments proving possession of whether ownership in a company, i.e. like shares and the equity markets, to ownership of debts…

Goldman Sachs Pumps Up Securities-Backed Lending