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Treasuries Market Defies Safety Steps, Spurring Alarm Over Risks
By Liz McCormick
May 7, 2019, Bloomberg
The 2008 crisis nearly wrecked the financial system, and there’s since been widespread agreement that safeguarding more trades inside the fortresses known as …
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Derivative-dealer capital requirements likely to come from SEC by summer
May 1, 2019, MLex
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission plans to expand stress-testing of derivative clearing houses, Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo said, as new tests showed two major clearing …
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Derivative clearing house stress-testing to expand as two facilities pass latest tests
May 1, 2019, MLex
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission plans to expand stress-testing of derivative clearinghouses, Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo said, as new tests showed two major clearinghouses could …
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E.U. Oversight of U.S. Clearinghouses to Be ‘Coordinated and Cooperative,’ Dombrovskis Says
April 12, 2019, MLex
The E.U. will approach post-Brexit oversight of U.S. derivative clearing houses in London “in a coordinated and cooperative manner,” European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said.…
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Top CCPs Add $79 Billion to Liquidity Pool in 2018
By Alessandro Aimone
April 11, 2019, Risk Quantum
Liquidity buffers at 10 of the largest central counterparties grew by $79 billion in aggregate in 2018 as the firms loaded up …
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Ready for EDDI? SSAs Plan to Disrupt Bond Issuance
By Burhan Khadbai
April 4, 2019, GlobalCapital
The European Stability Mechanism is spearheading a plan to create a new digital platform for launching public sector bonds in euros. The system, …
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E.U. Markets Watchdog Broadens Stress Test of Clearing Houses
By Huw Jones
April 3, 2019, Reuters
The European Union’s markets watchdog began its third stress test of 16 clearing houses on Wednesday, saying it was adding a new requirement …
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Finance Sector Hopes for Smooth Brexit, Plans for the Worst
By Laura Noonan
March 25, 2019, Financial Times
Two years after the U.K.’s historic vote to quit the E.U., the Financial Times asked senior finance executives which big Brexit risks …
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ECB Attacks E.U. Plans for Boosting Supervision of Clearing Houses
By Jim Brunsden and Claire Jones
March 17, 2019, Financial Times
European Central Bank officials have strongly criticized E.U. plans for boosting supervision of clearing houses, saying they leave it …
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CCP Risk Panels Aren’t Listening, Banks Say
By Robert Mackenzie Smith
March 15, 2019, Risk
Two big banks have insisted that risk committees at clearing houses take greater account of their voices when green-lighting newer, riskier products …
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