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by woah 33 days ago
> they want the retail and institutional investor to be protected

That costs money, indirectly

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But it does allow these investors to participate in the markets without losing their shirts - and the lack of such liquidity would impact the market more so than the cost of the risk mitigation - which as you completely correctly noted is not free - both in first and second order terms.