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EU Regulatory Report Card: End-Users Decry Cumulative Impact of Regulation
In the eight years since the financial crisis, the derivatives industry has been playing a game of slow motion table tennis as it reacts to the swathe of new rules that regulators and politicians around the world have been batting its way in a bid to prevent a recurrence.
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MAC Swaps: An Analysis of Trading Trends in 2015
Several years ago a group of buy-side firms came together in an effort to lead the interest rate swap market towards greater standardization of contract terms.
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Swap Futures
Eris Exchange has undertaken a massive expansion of its interest rate swap futures, doubling the range of maturities available and introducing a new set of forward-starting contracts.
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Scouts Meet STEM at the Chicago Trading Tech 300 Merit Badge Program
As exchange floors have shut down and markets have become more electronic, avenues of entry to that world have changed, and opportunities to find jobs through relationships and networking have diminished.
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2015 Annual Survey: Global Derivatives Volume
This year’s annual survey of derivatives exchange volumes highlights strong growth in the trading of futures and options at exchanges in China, India, Korea, Singapore and other parts of Asia.
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Voice over Internet
Green Key Technologies, a Chicago-based firm that provides voice-over-internet services designed for traders, recently announced partnerships with Trading Technologies International, a leading vendor of trading software, and Speakerbus.
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SEF Benefits
The Bank of England on Jan. 15 released a staff working paper studying the impact of Dodd-Frank rules requiring that certain interest rate swaps be traded on swap execution facilities.
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OTC Clearing
On Feb. 5, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Securities and Futures Commission released the final version of the mandatory clearing rules for interest rate swaps as well as a paper discussing the changes it made to the rules in response to comments submitted by market participants during the consultation process.
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Margin Methodology
On Feb. 1, FIA and ISDA submitted a response to ESMA's Consultation Paper reviewing Article 26 of RTS No 153/2013 regarding the margin period of risk (MPOR) for client accounts.
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Leverage Ratio: Bank of England backs changes for cleared derivatives
The Bank of England has urged European policymakers to review the treatment of derivatives trades in the leverage ratio calculation used to determine the amount of capital required for banks.
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