Apr. 19, 2022
To whom it may concern, The recent proposal of SR-NSCC-2022-801 does not reflect, in any way, shape, or form, any semblance of how a free or fair market should operate. With increasingly stringent and convoluted rules proposed and passed with the only benefit being weighted towards Wall Street, the retail investor has been pushed further and further down. This new rule proposes the ability for hedge funds and market makers to exponentially increase share lending without accountability for Bad Actors making poor choices and putting everyone else at risk. It is an absolute shame that the American markets allow something like this to even be put forward. It is abysmally one sided and whoever wrote this rule should be ashamed of themselves.