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European lawmakers urged to prevent CCP contagion risk
By Samuel Wilkes
May 28, 2020, Risk
Rules to resolve ailing central counterparties must change to ensure tools used by a CCP to allocate losses don’t force another over the …
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Open Access and Market Data Cost Noted in MiFID II Review
By Shanny Basar
May 20, 2020, Markets Media
Open access to clearin ghouses and trading venues and the high cost of market data in the European Union have been highlighted …
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BIS report urges derivatives clearing review after margin surge
By Christopher Whittall
May 11, 2020, IFR
Regulators should reassess aspects of the financial plumbing designed to prevent risks from derivatives markets torpedoing the wider financial system, according to a …
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Key MiFID Derivatives Rule Change Could Succumb to Pandemic
By Viren Vaghela and Silla Brush
May 5, 2020, Bloomberg Law
The coronavirus pandemic could delay efforts to open up the $1.5 trillion-a-day market for exchange-traded derivatives in Europe.
German …
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Tighter scrutiny of derivatives clearers proposed amid standoff with banks
By Huw Jones and David Henry
May 3, 2020, Reuters
Global regulators have proposed tighter scrutiny of clearing houses handling trillions of dollars in derivatives trades after calls from banks …
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E.U. ‘non-paper’ reveals new effort to delay CCP open access
By Samuel Wilkes
May 4, 2020, Risk
The debate over whether to delay a European Union rule that gives listed derivatives participants the freedom to choose where they clear their …
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Market speculates on discounting switch delays
By Alice Tchernookova
April 28, 2020, Practice Insight from IFLR
Earlier this month LCH, Eurex, and CME Group confirmed a five-week delay to the switch from Eonia [euro overnight index …
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CFTC’s Quintenz to Leave Swaps Regulator by End of October
By Ben Bain
April 28, 2020, Bloomberg
Brian Quintenz, the longest-serving member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is planning to leave the agency by the end of October.…
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Clearing houses postpone euro discounting switch to July
By Helen Bartholomew
April 17, 2020, Risk
The move to a new discount rate for euro interest rate swaps – initially planned for June 22 – has been delayed by …
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ESMA’s Output Unaffected By Remote Work
By Adrian Whelan, Brown Brothers Harriman
Originally published at the On the Regs blog
We are not living in normal times. Just ask my family: Never before have they seen …
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