Securities Lending & Borrowing

(SLB)
 Securities Lending & Borrowing - Concept

• Securities lending transaction is a temporary loan of securities

between Lender & Borrower.
• Describes the market practice by which, for a fee, securities are
transferred temporarily from one party, the lender, to another,
the borrower.
• Borrower is obliged to return them either on demand or at the
end of any agreed term and also has an option to early return.
• Lender may recall securities at any time within normal market
settlement cycle.
• It promotes market efficiency and liquidity

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Market Participants
 Lender
– Insurance Companies
– Banks
– HNI’s
– Mutual Funds
– Retail
 Borrower
– Short sellers, especially long term shorts
– Cash & derivatives arbitragers
– Market makers
– Retail
 Approved Intermediary
– Clearing Houses

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Why participate in Securities Lending &
Borrowing ?

 Lender’s Motivation
– It provides lender incremental return on an idle portfolio

 Borrower’s Motivation
– To cover a short position : avoidance of settlement failure
– Hedging of futures & options positions
– Borrow and lend to reap benefits of the market sentiment

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Salient Features in New SLB Platform
• SLB Contracts up to 1 year (Minimum 26 contracts)
• AI will list contracts with multiple stock return days:
 first Thursday of the month
 one (1) Thursday prior to the last Thursday of the month
 additional three (3) stock return days such that there are
stock return days in the first five (5) consecutive
Thursdays.

•Early Return and Recall

•Base Minimum Capital reduced to NIL
•No separate exe – Login same as BOLT
•Facility of Early pay-in

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SLB Mechanism
Example of the contracts available for SLB

No. of Contracts Scrip ID First Trade Day Last Trade Day Stock Return Day
1 RIL02DEC10 22-Nov-10 29-Nov-10 2-Dec-10
2 RIL09DEC10 22-Nov-10 6-Dec-10 9-Dec-10
3 RIL16DEC10 22-Nov-10 13-Dec-10 16-Dec-10
4 RIL23DEC10 22-Nov-10 20-Dec-10 23-Dec-10
5 RIL30DEC10 22-Nov-10 27-Dec-10 30-Dec-10
6 RIL06JAN11 22-Nov-10 3-Jan-11 6-Jan-11
7 RIL20JAN11 22-Nov-10 17-Jan-11 20-Jan-11
8 RIL03FEB11 22-Nov-10 31-Jan-11 3-Feb-11
9 RIL17FEB11 22-Nov-10 14-Feb-11 17-Feb-11
10 RIL03MAR11 22-Nov-10 28-Feb-11 3-Mar-11

11 RIL24MAR11 22-Nov-10 21-Mar-11 24-Mar-11

12 RIL07APR11 22-Nov-10 4-Apr-11 7-Apr-11
13 RIL21APR11 22-Nov-10 18-Apr-11 21-Apr-11

14 RIL05MAY11 22-Nov-10 2-May-11 5-May-11

Example of the contracts available for SLB

No. of Contracts Scrip ID First Trade Day Last Trade Day Stock Return Day

15 RIL19MAY11 22-Nov-10 16-May-11 19-May-11

16 RIL02JUN11 22-Nov-10 30-May-11 2-Jun-11
17 RIL23JUN11 22-Nov-10 20-Jun-11 23-Jun-11
18 RIL07JUL11 22-Nov-10 4-Jul-11 7-Jul-11
19 RIL21JUL11 22-Nov-10 18-Jul-11 21-Jul-11

20 RIL04AUG11 22-Nov-10 1-Aug-11 4-Aug-11

21 RIL18AUG11 22-Nov-10 15-Aug-11 18-Aug-11

22 RIL01SEP11 22-Nov-10 29-Aug-11 1-Sep-11
23 RIL22SEP11 22-Nov-10 19-Sep-11 22-Sep-11
24 RIL06OCT11 22-Nov-10 3-Oct-11 6-Oct-11
25 RIL20OCT11 22-Nov-10 17-Oct-11 20-Oct-11

26 RIL31NOV11 22-Nov-10 31-Oct-11 3-Nov-11

27 RIL17NOV11 22-Nov-10 14-Nov-11 17-Nov-11

 Settlement Cycle
Activities Proposed Timings
Trade Day  
Securities Lending & Borrowing session 09:15 a.m. – 03:30 p.m.
Custodial confirmation by 06: 00 p.m.
Final obligations download 07:00 p.m.
Trade day +1  
Pay-in of securities/funds 9:30 a.m.
Pay- out of securities/funds 11:00 a.m.
Fund or securities shortages Financial closeout
Early return/recall day + 1  
Pay-in of securities/funds 9:30 AM
Pay-out of securities/funds 11:00 AM
Fund or securities shortages Financial closeout
Stock return day  
Pay-in of securities 9:30 AM
Pay-out of securities/funds 11:00 a.m.
Buy-in auction for failure of borrower to return securities 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Auction obligations download 2:00 p.m.
Stock return day + 1  
Pay-in of securities for auction settlement 9:30 a.m.
Pay-out of securities/funds for auction settlement 11:00 a.m.
Application Process
Application to BOISL

Member agreement with BOISL (Part A#)

Deposit additional base capital for margins

Fulfill all conditions specified in SEBI / BOISL Circular

Member agreement with Clients (Part B#)

and complete all KYC Formalities

Activation of the members

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SLB Snapshot

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For further information, contact us @

Contact Person Contact No. Email id

Ms. Shikha Chauhan 2272 8749 shikha.chauhan@bseindia.com

Mr .Ojas Shah 2272 8504 ojas.shah@bseindia.com

Ms. Sandeep Kaur 2272 8132 sandeep.kaur@bseindia.com

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