{"id":583547,"date":"2023-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/03\/12\/this-evening-the-fra-wants-to-give-short-selling-a-boost-with-a-select-pool-of-licensed-stocks-startupland-scrambles-to-contain-silicon-valley-bank-fallout\/"},"modified":"2023-03-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T00:00:00","slug":"this-evening-the-fra-wants-to-give-short-selling-a-boost-with-a-select-pool-of-licensed-stocks-startupland-scrambles-to-contain-silicon-valley-bank-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/03\/12\/this-evening-the-fra-wants-to-give-short-selling-a-boost-with-a-select-pool-of-licensed-stocks-startupland-scrambles-to-contain-silicon-valley-bank-fallout\/","title":{"rendered":"THIS EVENING: The FRA wants to give short selling a boost with a select pool of licensed stocks + StartupLand scrambles to contain Silicon Valley Bank fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the end of the start of the week.<\/span><span> Things are still on a relatively brisk note in the news cycle as the ripple effect of the Silicon Valley Bank continues to be felt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700;\">THE BIG STORY TODAY<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">A new lending pool to resuscitate short selling: <\/span><span style=\"\">The Financial Regulatory<\/span><span style=\"\"> Authority (FRA) is mulling launching a lending pool of stocks licensed for short selling with the EGX and <\/span><span style=\"\">Misr for Central Clearing and Depository (MCDR)<\/span><span style=\"\"> in a bid to <\/span><span style=\"\">resuscitate short selling<\/span><span style=\"\">, <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alborsaanews.com\/2023\/03\/12\/1642800\" style=\"\">Al Borsa<\/a><\/span><span style=\"\"> quotes FRA boss Mohamed Farid. MCDR would manage the potential lending pool, Farid reportedly said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700;\">THE BIG STORY ABROAD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Picking up where we left off this morning, the international business press remains<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\"> entirely fixated on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank<\/span><span> as depositors scramble to access their money to be able to meet payroll obligations. The story continues to top the front pages of the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/3c6551ff-9778-4713-afc5-f87ba0bb80dd\" style=\"\">Financial Times<\/a><\/span><span>, the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/wall-street-braces-for-the-next-silicon-valley-bank-956b8f03?mod=hp_lead_pos1\" style=\"\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/span><span>, <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/regulators-urged-find-silicon-valley-bank-buyer-industry-frets-about-fallout-2023-03-12\/\" style=\"\">Reuters<\/a><\/span><span>, and <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/03\/11\/silicon-valley-bank-failure-has-investors-calling-for-government-aid.html\" style=\"\">CNBC<\/a><\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height:2px;border-width:0;color:gray;background-color:gray\">\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">** CATCH UP QUICK<\/span><span style=\"\"> on the top stories from today\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">EnterpriseAM<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Silicon Valley Bank collapse could squeeze dozens of high-profile local startups:<\/span><span> The implosion of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2023\/03\/12\/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-leaves-dozens-of-local-startups-in-the-lurch-99375\/\" style=\"\">has likely left<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> scores of Egyptian startups without access to deposits they parked at the bank.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Inflation <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;font-weight:700;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2023\/03\/12\/inflation-surges-to-five-and-a-half-year-high-in-february-far-above-analysts-expectations-99377\/\" style=\"\">surged to a fresh high<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\"> in February on the back of a record increase in food prices<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> amid the ongoing depreciation of the EGP and higher demand going into Ramadan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:700\">CBE wants advisors for United Bank sale:<\/span><span> The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has sent investment banks \u2014 including \u201cseveral big Western banks\u201d \u2014 <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2023\/03\/12\/cbe-seeks-advisors-for-united-bank-sale-99378\/\" style=\"\">a request to pitch<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> for an advisory role in the sale of United Bank of Egypt. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"web-image-inner\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2022\/3\/Inside-Industry-en-WEB-1600x584-v5-03-1.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"enterprise\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">*** It\u2019s Inside Industry day \u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">your weekly briefing of all things industrial in Egypt.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> Inside Industry focuses each Sunday on what it takes to turn Egypt into a manufacturing and export powerhouse, ranging from initial investment and planning to product distribution, through to land allocation to industrial processes, supply chain management, labor, automation and technology, inputs and exports, regulation and policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">In today\u2019s issue:<\/span><span style=\"\"> Automotive industry players express their hopes for the newly-active<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> Supreme Council for Vehicle Manufacturing and the specific issues they hope to see the council address in the industry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span 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CIRCLE YOUR CALENDAR-<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Egypt is playing host to PPP MENA Forum: <\/span><span style=\"\">The two-day <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pppmenaforum.com\/\" style=\"\">Public-Private Partnership MENA<\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pppmenaforum.com\/\" style=\"\">Forum<\/a><\/span><span> kicks off at the Nile-Ritz Carlton in Cairo on 19 March, bringing together over 300 regional and international PPP players to discuss new partnership models and projects to advance the region\u2019s socio-economic growth. Discussions held under the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EgyptianCabinet\/posts\/pfbid0LcD6Bn3W3GLAsWcsoEtcs4HKvYUZcNh5H6FXZe3SUgA2ArfVzoLn4MPRA4QrKPdel\" style=\"\">patronage of Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> will include policies for infrastructure projects, private funding for national projects, governance, and best practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u2614 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">TOMORROW\u2019S WEATHER-<\/span><span style=\"\"> Don\u2019t put away your winter wardrobe just yet \u2014 we\u2019re still<\/span><span> getting a few days of colder weather, coupled with rain or a sandstorm, depending on where you live. 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