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Author Website Services: Essential Features for Every Writer

by Michaeladams on Aug 1st, 2025 07:17 AM

Author website services are tailored to help writers establish a strong online presence. These services typically include domain setup, professional design, bio pages, book showcase sections, blog integration, and mailing list capture. Whether you're self-published or traditionally published, having a website allows you to control your brand and connect directly with readers. Look for providers that understand the publishing world and offer SEO, mobile responsiveness, and eCommerce options. Bonus features like event calendars, media kits, and review sections can elevate your author platform. A strategic website isn’t just a digital business card—it’s your central marketing hub.

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Providing an efficient source of

by shamsa on Aug 1st, 2025 08:22 AM

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[li][b]Providing an efficient source of short-term funding.[/b] By being able to offer deposits secured by legal title to high-quality liquid assets (HQLAs) and diversification to include lenders other than commercial banks, repo is able to mobilise cheaper and deeper funding for financial intermediaries, in particular, securities dealers. And by reducing the degree of dependence on commercial banks, access to short-term funding is made easier and more reliable. Cheaper and easier funding helps to lower the cost of financial services provided by intermediaries to investors and issuers. Institutional investors also use repo, to meet temporary liquidity requirements without having to liquidate strategic long-term investments. Since the introduction of the Basel regulatory requirement to clear standardised OTC derivatives across central counterparties (CCPs) and the related imposition of margin on uncleared OTC derivatives, the repo market has become an important source of cash for non-banks to provide as variation margin to CCPs.[/li]

[li][b]Providing a more resilient money market.[/b] The resilience of the repo market helps to mitigate systemic risk. Repo is a more stable source of short-term wholesale funding than unsecured deposits, because collateral in the form of HQLA (overwhelmingly the most common type) and secured by the transfer of legal title hedges both the credit and liquidity risks of lenders ([color=#014066]see question 1[/color]). This means lenders are more willing to offer longer-term funding and, as recognised in the Basel Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR), are less likely to refuse to roll-over lending, even in a stressed market. For example, although the repo market was not immune to the disruption triggered by the default of Lehman Brothers in 2008, it did not suffer a seizure and has been essential in avoiding total and unsustainable dependence on central bank liquidity.* The stability of repo funding is reinforced by the wide range of lenders who are willing to lend in the wholesale money market on a suitably secured basis. Diversification creates a market which is deeper and naturally more resilient. Repo also mitigates systemic risk by allowing traders and investors who need liquidity in a stressed market to convert assets temporarily into cash in a way that is less disruptive than outright sales. Outright sales would depress the price of collateral securities and crystallize any unrealised losses on the holdings being liquidated or on hedges that have to be unwound when holdings are sold. Falling prices and mounting losses could amplify market stress and fuel the self-reinforcing dynamics of a crisis.[/li]

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