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ECB Finds Leverage Ratio Constraints on Swaps Trading
By Louisa Chender
February 19, 2019, Global Investor Group
The leverage ratio may constrain swaps trading as it continues to play a key role in banks’ activity, a study finds.…
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CFTC Warns SA-CCR May Exacerbate Systemic Risk
By Louisa Chender
February 20, 2019, Global Investor Group
Four Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioners warned that rules for calculating the supplementary leverage ratio may exacerbate systemic risk as …
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CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz Suggests Creation of Crypto Self-Regulatory Organization
By Adrian Zmudzinski
February 18, 2019, Cointelegraph
United States Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner Brian Quintenz has suggested that participants in the cryptocurrency industry should create a self-regulatory …
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Why Bond Traders Are Breathing a Sigh of Relief Over a Tentative Deal to Avoid Another Government Shutdown
By Sunny Oh
February 13, 2019, MarketWatch
A tentative deal by lawmakers that would avert a government shutdown may have some Treasury traders breathing a sigh of relief ahead of …
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Giancarlo’s Last Stand: The Race to Complete SEF Reforms
By Robert Mackenzie Smith and Joanna Wright
February 13, 2019, Risk
Even before he became chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Christopher Giancarlo had always been vocal about the …
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SEC, CFTC Commissioners Push for Streamlined Regulation
By Hazel Bradford
February 12, 2019, Pensions&Investments
Two capital markets regulators held out the promise of more streamlined regulation and oversight during a Bipartisan Policy Center event Tuesday.
SEC Commissioner …
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Libor May Linger as Regulators ‘Change Tune’
By Robert Mackenzie Smith
February 12, 2019, Risk
International regulators appear to be coming round to the idea that Libor may have to be kept alive to avoid chaos in …
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Non-Cleared Initial Margin Requirements – Phase 4 and 5 Firms Are on the Clock
By Russell Rhoads, TABB Group
Originally published on on the TABB FORUM
The deadline for Phase 4 firms to come into compliance with uncleared margin requirements is September 2019, and …
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Keeping Score of Trade Compliance: A Regulator’s Perspective from Tom Sexton, NFA CEO, Part II
By Rick Lane, Trading Technologies
Originally published on the Trading Technologies Trade Talk blog and on the TABBFORUM
Recently, Trading Technologies’ CEO Rick Lane sat down with NFA President and …
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SEF Trading Sees New Highs in 2019 as CFTC Aims to Rewrite the Rules
By Colby Jenkins, TABB Group
Originally published on the TABBFORUM
Five years after the first swap trade was executed on a swap execution facility, the CFTC is looking to amend …
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