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News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives
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
Finextra TV/Fixed income and OTC derivatives
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
A European Parliament committee has given its backing to legislation that will see more derivative trades settled through clearing houses. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, US lawmakers have moved to delay the implementation of their own new derivatives rules.
25 May 2011
The world's biggest investment banks are being investigated in two European Commission antitrust probes into the credit default swaps (CDS) market.
03 May 2011
Around 16% of European share trading is over-the-counter (OTC), far less than claimed by stock exchanges, according to a study from the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (Afme).
20 April 2011
CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton has hit back at Republican plans to delay for 18 months all rulemakings involving derivatives under the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law.
18 April 2011
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is contemplating the creation of a new 'Division of Market Data Collection and Analysis' to keep pace with computer-based trading and reduce its reliance on the exchanges it regulates for data dissemination.
14 April 2011
Europe's exchanges have hit out at plans to create a new type of trading venue category as part of MiFID's overhaul, warning the proposal will cause an "irreversible race to the bottom" for regulation.
08 April 2011
The Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation (CDCC) has inked a memorandum of understanding with New York Portfolio Clearing (NYPC) to build a link for the Canadian swap market.
05 April 2011
Regulatory moves to force OTC derivative trades to go through central counterparties could just shift systemic risks to these CCPs and lead to more tax payer bailouts, according to a working paper published by the IMF.
31 March 2011
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) is calling for the creation of a commodity OTC derivatives trade repository by January.
25 March 2011
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is set to start clearing over-the-counter derivatives in Europe in May.
15 March 2011
Europe's LCH.Clearnet has launched its clearing service for non-bank users of interest rates swaps in the US, with twelve futures commission merchants (FCM) onboard.
09 March 2011
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