Bloomberg sues CFTC over derivatives rules – FT.com
What’s the difference if you take interest risk wrapped in a bond, a swap or a a future? BBG starts the process of exploring the sense in the CFTC deciding what’s liquid in a default, and therefore how...
View ArticleDaniel L. Doctoroff: Where’s the Futures Trade Repository? | CEO of BBG
Check the story via the link, the CEO and President of Bloomberg sets out his stall to precede the court action on margin requirements for Deliverable Swap Futures. Congress mandated that swap...
View ArticleSEF Applicants under the CFTC Rules
I keep seeing news stories on firms applying to be a SEF, here’s the one’s I’ve seen, send in any others and I’ll add them. State Street SwapEx Announcement (they also own http://www.swapex.com but...
View ArticleCan you Calculate Your Initial Margin and Capital Within Your Swap Execution...
Bloomberg have integrated the Initial Margin calculations from SwapClear into their trading platform. What this provides is: The ability to always know your current IM The ability to predict IM in...
View ArticleBloomberg Webinar on 25.09.2013
Bloomberg will be hosting a webinar tomorrow, 25.09.2013, on the following topic: CHANGES IN OTC TRADING: IMPACTS TO CLEARING, COLLATERAL AND LIQUIDITY Among other speakers from Bloomberg, BNY Mellon...
View ArticleThe week that was (Dazzling Derivatives; issue of 15th October 2013)
Dear all, The TOP Stories of last week: SEFs have started trading… first insights Tabb Group says that the bulk of SEF trades were conducted on dealer-to-customer (D2C) platforms, according to SEF...
View ArticleGensler hints that SDR data not effectively processed | FX Bloomberg FX13...
CFTC Chairman Gensler gives quite a broad synopsis of what’s been achieved and what still needs to be done in this Bloomberg conference interview. His synopsis lauded improvements in transparency and...
View ArticleFirst SEF MAC swap | Bloomberg
Bloomberg is reporting the first MAC IRS traded on a SEF in this article. Direct competition with swapfutures It will be interesting to see whether these take off or whether on the run spot starting...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup | Trading | 25 November 2013
SEF Volumes for Week 7 | ClarusFT The SEF Volume figures for Week 7 are now in. ClarusFT: SEF Volumes for Week 7. Impartial Access Encourages, But Does Not Require, An Agency Model In the past I’ve...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup | US Regulation | 25 November 2013
The CFTC CFTC to Shake Up US Swaps Trading Market New guidance from the main US regulator of privately negotiated derivatives is set to test the business models of interdealer brokers, who have long...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup | Collateral & Risk Management | 9 December 2013
Collateral Management The $5 Trillion Dilemma Facing Banking Regulators Last month, I wrote about bond-market illiquidity — the problem that it’s incredibly difficult to buy and sell bonds in any kind...
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