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News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives
The London Stock Exchange is to acquire a majority 60% stake in LCH.Clearnet in a deal valuing the clearing house at EUR813 million.
09 March 2012
International regulatory authorities have called for the urgent creation of a universal Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) in their final report on the OTC derivatives data that should be collected, stored and disseminated by trade repositories (TRs).
17 January 2012
Ffastfill has posted a pre-tax loss of £107,000 for the first half on flat revenues of £7.3 million. The UK derivatives trading vendor has also agreed to buy the business and assets of Chicago-based WTD Consulting for up to £7.6 million.
22 November 2011
Deutsche Börse and Nyse Euronext are proposing to divest their overlapping equity options business across Europe and open up third party access to Eurex Clearing in an effort to win EU approval for their $9 billion merger deal.
18 November 2011
Sapient Global Markets has won a contract to design and build a European central data repository for asset-backed securities (ABSs).
03 November 2011
Paul Tucker, deputy governor of the Bank of England, says effective resolution regimes need to be put in place to help deal with the "mayhem" that would result if a central counterparty went bust.
25 October 2011
Europe's exchanges have voiced their concerns that broker crossing networks are not being subjected to the same level of scrutiny as traditional bourses in the current debate on regulating automated trading.
13 October 2011
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted to push for a rule making security-based swap entities electronically file their registration with regulators.
Finextra TV/Fixed income and OTC derivatives
Chris Ekonomidis, director at Sapient, talks about how reform will affect trade finance and workflows at Sibos 2011.
30 September 2011
The global regulatory push to centrally clear over-the-counter derivatives has started a "technological revolution" that provides a big opportunity for vendors, according to a report from Tabb Group.
29 September 2011
OTC derivatives processing services firm MarkitServ has agreed to buy UK post-trade software vendor Logicscope. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
21 September 2011
The British government is to sue the European Central Bank over draft regulations that would force major clearing houses to relocate their operations away from the City of London.
15 September 2011
Richard Cummings, EVP at SmartStream, discusses how regulation is acting as a catalyst for the move towards intra-day management to deliver greater efficiency and control across post-trade operations. He explains how this will impact cash and liquidity management, managing reference data and the challenge represented by increased OTC derivatives volumes.
12 September 2011
Global regulators have set out plans for reducing the "data gaps" in OTC derivatives trading that are hitting efforts to assess systemic risk in the market.
24 August 2011
Nyse Euronext's proposed merger with Deutsche Börse has moved a step nearer after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) waved through the deal.
23 August 2011
The Dodd-Frank Act will lead to around 60% of current US over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market by volume being cleared centrally, according to Citi.
13 July 2011
Financial messaging network Swift and the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) have won two separate industry data management mandates, for the development of a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) utility and electronic foreign exchange repository.
12 July 2011
Thomson Reuters has set a mid-2012 deadline to get its trading platforms ready for forthcoming OTC derivatives regulations, as it releases research which shows clear bank unease at the uncertain impact of the new rules on front and back office operations.
11 July 2011
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is to push ahead with a tranche of new rules governing market manipulation and large trader reporting under the Dodd-Frank financial reform act.
08 July 2011
The world's biggest sell-side banks have formed a working group to push the adoption of FIX connectivity for fixed income trading.
01 June 2011
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