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Banks that are having difficulty selling off illiquid assets to comply with the Volcker Rule can apply for an extension.

More than half of investors looking to deploy $500m or more access the secondaries market by purchasing stakes, the most popular method, according to a survey by Probitas.

Equidate was charged for failing to register security-based swaps in a case that has implications for direct secondaries.

It is understood the vehicle, which launched in February, will make secondaries investments.

The private equity firm beat the target for Adveq Europe VI, which will invest in primary, secondaries and co-investments.

Andrew Ceresney, who has led the US regulator's largest division for nearly four years, is at least the seventh senior person to depart since the presidential election.

The Whitehorse Liquidity Partners managing partner and former head of secondaries and co-investments at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board gives us his predictions for how the secondaries market looks in 2017.

The troubled pension was expected to approve the sale, which includes private equity and real assets stakes, on Thursday.

The vast majority of investors are inquiring about diversity at private equity firms, while some of the largest LPs have started using specific disclosure forms.

Surprises are in store when deals done hurriedly over the last three years under-deliver, according to managing director Nathalie von Niederhäusern.