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Global regulators seek to head off derivatives cash clash
By Huw Jones
June 13, 2019, Reuters
Global banking regulators meet next week to try to bridge divisions over whether to delay forcing smaller firms to back their derivatives trades …
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CFTC frees amended legacy swaps from margin net
By Helen Bartholomew
June 12, 2019, Risk
The U.S. derivatives regulator has taken steps to ensure legacy swaps are not swept into scope for non-cleared margin rules as a result …
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CFTC commissioner backs non-cleared margin docs relief
By Noah Zuss
June 12, 2019, Risk
Dawn DeBerry Stump, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has urged U.S. regulators to transcribe recent international relief on non-cleared margin …
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Position limits saga a “constant concern” – Stump
By Louisa Chender
June 12, 2019, Global Investor Group
CFTC Commissioner Dawn Stump is not expecting participants to be happy with rules on position limits once the seemingly never-ending saga …
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ISDA urges accounting board to prioritize IBOR issues
By Louisa Chender
June 11, 2019, Global Investor Group
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) is urging accounting boards to press ahead with issues relating to the shift from …
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CFTC offers relief from uncleared swap margin rule
By Louisa Chender
June 7, 2019, Global Investor Group
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has confirmed that certain amendments to swaps executed before the uncleared margin rule kicks in …
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Banks quiet on Libor legacy transition, say Asian clients
By Narayanan Somasundaram
May 30, 2019, Risk
Asian firms say there has been minimal engagement from dealers about the transition of their investments, debt and hedges off the Libor family …
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Evolution or extinction: ICE swap rate’s post-Libor quandary
By Helen Bartholomew
May 24, 2019, Risk
As Libor’s future hangs in the balance, so too does the fate of a lesser-known but widely used benchmark underpinning a gamut of …
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U.S. loan market seeks to block CDS manipulation
By Kristen Haunss
May 13, 2019, Reuters
U.S. companies are trying to stop speculative investors from calling events of default on leveraged loans to get payouts under Credit Default Swap …
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Go to the Head of the Class: Smart Contracts for Swaps Trading
By George Bollenbacher, TABB Group
Originally published on the TABB FORUM
Smart contracts’ potential for making the rates swaps business much more efficient looks very attractive. But these contracts, and …
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