Derivatives Regulation – a Corporate Treasurer’s Nightmare
By Tom Riesack and Ute Herzog In the ‘new normal’ of highly regulated financial markets, corporate treasurers are feeling the ...
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Trading swaps in a cleared world
Meet Joe. Joe is a swaps trader within a small institution that has a straightforward hedging strategy at both the ...
Bilateral Margin Requirements: A Liquidity Vortex?
$30,000,000,000,000 - This huge figure is the estimated additional liquidity financial institutions worldwide will need if the current proposal by ...
If They Build It, Will They Come? A Look at Electronic OTC Trading Venues
One of the mandates of the 2009 G20 summit was to ensure the electronic trading and central clearing of standardised ...
Trade Repository Reporting: The Regulation of Unintended Consequences
In order to monitor systemic risks as near to real-time as possible regulators have introduced the requirement for market participants ...
OTC clearing and Its Impact on Collateral Management
Collateral: banks, broker-dealers, funds and clearinghouses all need it more than ever. Collateralization of bilateral as well as cleared OTC ...
‘Extraterritoriality’ in trading — try saying that quickly, three times over!
After almost two years since the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) was put on the statute books, the first swap-related articles finally ...
OTC regulatory complexity fosters clearing insecurity
“ The financial crisis that began in 2007 had its origins precisely in over-complex regulation.” These are the wise words ...
Are financial institutions prepared for central OTC clearing?
Just three years ago the G20 leaders agreed upon a common course to regulate the financial markets, with focus on ...
