Weekly Roundup | Clearing & Technology | 22 Oct 2013
Clearing News Leverage and CCP Capital Proposals Will Hurt Clearing Four fifths of respondents to a new poll think proposed changes to the leverage ratio and CCP capital rules will make it uneconomical...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup | EMIR & MiFID II | 22 Oct 2013
EMIR Member States Freedom to Fine Breaches of EMIR Article 12 of EMIR gives Member States the power to set their own penalties for breach of the Regulation. This has led to deferred publication of...
View ArticleESMA CCP front-loading – problem waiting to happen? | Risk article
ESMA rules deem that once one CCP is authorized to clear a given product, non-exempt participants have to clear every trade executed after that date – even if the clearing mandate for new trades is not...
View ArticleEvent Information | TEDxWallStreet | New York
TEDxWallStreet is radically different from a typical commercial, finance-related event. In fact, this is not a finance conference–TEDxWallStreet was conceived to provide an exciting platform for the...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup | The CFTC | 28 Oct 2013
The CFTC’s Definition of a “US Person” Derivatives: Redefining ‘US person’ Creates Fund Manager Turmoil Fund managers in Europe and Asia could scale down their US operations after being caught up in...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup | SEFs and Footnotes 88 & 513 | 28 Oct 2013
SEFs Larger Buy-Siders Most Enthusiastic SEF Adopters An absence of rules mandating use of swap execution facilities (SEFs) has concentrated the initial weeks of SEF trading to large asset managers and...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup | Trade Reporting & Market Commentary | 28 Oct 2013
Trade Reporting The Global LEI System – A Key Pillar Of Risk Management William Hodash, Managing Director, DTCC and Chairman of The CICI Utility charts the path towards a Global LEI system. ISS Mag:...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup | Clearing | 28 Oct 2013
Clearing News Clearing in Europe Won’t Bite Until 2015, Banks Expect CFTC’s Chilton says “continuing to kick the can down the road is just not acceptable”, as expectations grow that Europe will miss...
View ArticleAm I a US person? The known unknowns of who’s who for Dodd-Frank OTC
Though it seemed for a while that the US/EU’s ‘path forward’ agreement on substituted compliance might have simplified OTC compliance for the markets, when it came to writing the rules the SEC and CFTC...
View ArticleTemporary Swap Lines Made Permanent | Central Banks
It was announced today that a temporary network of bilateral liquidity swap lines between six central banks will be made into a standing arrangement “until further notice”. The six central banks are...
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