DRS Your GME

Tennessee House Bill 2806 / Senate Bill 2640 amends the Uniform Commercial Code to:

• Move the jurisdiction for security entitlements to Tennessee
• Give entitlement holders priority over secured creditors of intermediaries

The civil justice subcommittee hearing features testimony from:

• David Webb –– author of The Great Taking
• Don Grande –– private practice attorney
• Andy Guggenheim –– Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association
• Tim Amos –– uniform law commissioner

Andy Guggenheim: "While holding securities in street name is the most common choice for investors, they do have alternatives for holding securities in other ways if they prefer including physical form via stock certificate when that is available by the issuing company." (He won't say the word DRS!)

David Webb: "DTCC itself is planning to start up and pre-fund a new central clearing counterparty when one of the existing ones fails. The industry is talking about the very real possibility that major central counterparties will fail."

Related Links:

• Bill Text
• Legislative History
• Video of the Civil Justice Subcommittee Hearing
• EU Clearing and Settlement Legal Certainty Group Questionnaire