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City of London’s Brexit Tab Rises With Stock and Swaps Moves
By Silla Brush and Viren Vaghela
February 11, 2021, Bloomberg
The City of London has little to celebrate from the first six weeks of freedom from the European Union.
The …
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Bank of England threatens to use ‘tools’ to scrap Libor
By Huw Jones
January 16, 2020, Reuters
The Bank of England warned on Thursday that it could force banks and insurers to hold more capital or use other “supervisory tools” …
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Swaps Missing From MiFID II Reporting
By Shanny Basar
November 11, 2019, Markets Media
At least €800bn (€750bn) of notional in vanilla cleared euro/US dollar interests rate swaps is missing each week from MiFID II transaction …
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Uncleared Derivative Volumes Hold Steady
By Shanny Basar
May 28, 2019, Markets Media
The notional outstanding of uncleared interest rate derivatives was $105 (€94) trillion at the end last year, similar to 2016, according to …
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Initial Margin Regulation Faces ‘Big Bang’
By Shanny Basar
February 27, 2019, Markets Media
The requirement to exchange initial margin on uncleared derivatives will affect ten times as many market participants in 2020.
Regulators began implementing …
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European Benchmark Transition Faces Hurdle
By Shanny Basar
January 9, 2019, Markets Media
The low volume of cleared swaps based on Eonia, the euro overnight index average rate, may make it difficult to transition to …
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ISINs Hamper MiFID II Transparency
By Shanny Basar
December 12, 2018, Markets Media
The errors in trade reporting under new European Union regulations have decreased in the last six months but transparency in the over …
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More Diverse Participants Should Use Central Clearing
By Shanny Basar
December 3, 2018, Markets Media
Clearing houses should offer opportunities for netting offsets to increase the number of over-the-counter participants in central clearing and improve market quality …
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Central Clearing Makes Inroads
By Shanny Basar
May 4, 2018, Markets Media
Central clearing is still gaining ground in the over-the-counter derivatives market according to the latest survey from the Bank for International Settlements.…
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MiFID II Review to Look at Systematic Internalizers
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Blast From the Past: EU Tells Traders Working From Home: Take Notes if You Can’t Record Calls
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Blast From the Past: EU Watchdog to Nudge Bond Trades Closer to Real-Time Transparency
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Blast From the Past: Traders Across Europe Face Up to the Cost of Failure
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Blast From the Past: Passive Investing Boom Reaches Europe as Assets Hit $1 Trillion
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MiFID II Review to Look at Systematic Internalizers
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Blast From the Past: EU Tells Traders Working From Home: Take Notes if You Can’t Record Calls
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Blast From the Past: EU Watchdog to Nudge Bond Trades Closer to Real-Time Transparency
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Blast From the Past: Traders Across Europe Face Up to the Cost of Failure
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Blast From the Past: Passive Investing Boom Reaches Europe as Assets Hit $1 Trillion
Swaps Regulations Are Changing – Part One, SEFs
By Chris Barnes, Clarus
Originally published on the Clarus Financial Technology blog
What You Need to Know
Last week, the CFTC Chairman, Christopher Giancarlo, presented a whitepaper at the annual …
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