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Third Easter Repository | OTC Space Enters the Competition
Press release: The OTC Space is proud to announce its launch into the crowded trade reporting space and believes it brings new thinking to the challenge: - Partnership with key leaders in managing ‘big...
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Global Futures Volume Report | OTC Clearing and Regulations
Global Futures Volume Report | OTC Clearing and Regulations. See page 22 of the PDF for volume change by exchange, quite interesting.Filed under: Done, FIA, LIFFE, News, NYSE LIFFE, Trade Associations,...
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Finadium: Guide to Margining for Cleared Swaps vs. Futures | Securities...
The post below is a trailer for a paid report, which itself looks interesting, but you need to be a subscriber. Finadium: Guide to Margining for Cleared Swaps vs. Futures | Securities Finance...
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Putting Things Into Perspective | Swaps vs. Swap-Futures
It looks as though some market participants could do with a couple of words of advice from Harry Enfield’s Scousers: “Calm Down!” The Initial Margin (IM) calculation differences between swaps and...
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IDBs shifting from SEFs to futures exchanges?
The attached article from FOX news indicates IDBs are making initial moves to set up new futures exchanges including: - GFI filed to set up the GFI Futures Exchange LLC (just filed with CFTC for...
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The week that was (issue of 8th April 2013)
Dear all, Markit Acquires DTCC Stake in MarkitSERV: http://bit.ly/145hboz The highlights of last week Last minute frenzied activity around the April 10 deadline for Dodd-Frank reporting rules...
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Swapfutures vs. swaps – buy-side views
Some comments from buy side firms and SEFs on the CFTC’s and CCP’s differential treatment of economically equivalent swaps and swapfutures are contained here (Risk mag, subs). The gist is that margin...
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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...
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CME SDR data leak
The CME SDR sprang a leak,story here affecting DE Shaw & others. Update: more from Reuters, it was futures data not OTC, 500 trades. Story hereFiled under: Clearing, CME, News, Post Trade...
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Futures reporting delay “will not take place” says EC’s Pearson – Risk.net
As hinted at yesterday, it appears that the only option available to delay ETD reporting is for ESMA not to approve any TR until the many data format and structural issues are resolved. “The decision...
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CB/GCM Position Limits for Futures or Equities | Question
This is going a little off-piste but I’m hoping the wisdom of the crowd will help. I need to understand how the client limits process works in Equities and Futures. The OTC model of clearing has a...
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