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E.U. Trading Obligation Threatens Packaged Trades
By Samuel Wilkes
September 18, 2017, Risk
European Union rules requiring certain derivatives to trade on multilateral platforms could result in market participants being unable to execute packages, thereby increasing …
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Fix for Mortgage Giants Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Returns to Back Burner
By Andrew Ackerman and Juliet Chung
September 15, 2017, The Wall Street Journal
Mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have been under government control since the financial …
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Wall Street’s Trillion Dollar Monopoly Has Repo Traders on Edge
By Liz McCormick
September 18, 2017, Bloomberg Markets
These days, it’s virtually impossible to become a bona fide monopoly on Wall Street.
But that’s exactly what is happening in one …
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Will MiFID II RPAs Survive?
By Shanny Basar
September 15, 2017, Markets Media
The announcement by BlackRock, the world’s larger asset manager, that it will absorb payments for research has led to a debate over …
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CCAR Feedback Prompts Banks to Improve Governance
By Steve Marlin
September 14, 2017, Risk
U.S. banks are tightening up the governance and controls around stress testing functions in response to recent feedback from the Federal Reserve.
While …
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Global Central Banks Can’t Ignore the Bitcoin Boom, BIS Says
By Catherine Bosley
September 18, 2017, Bloomberg Technology
The world’s central banks can’t ignore the growth in cryptocurrencies and may at some point have to consider whether it makes sense …
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E.U. to Make Banks Pay to Centralize Markets Supervision
By Huw Jones
September 14, 2017, Reuters
The European Union wants to centralize market supervision and make banks pay for it, the bloc’s financial services chief said, signaling how it …
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Brokers Brace for MiFID II Squeeze
By Chris Davis
September 13, 2017, Risk
Interdealer brokers are no strangers to a gamble. When Risk.net compiled its annual rankings of the industry four years ago, many bet the …
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The Takeaways From Draghi’s Jackson Hole Speech
ECB President Mario Draghi defended free trade and post-crisis financial regulation at the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole symposium, while avoiding any comments on monetary-policy deliberations or the euro exchange …
Read More →Market Structure Weekly with Larry Tabb: September 8, 2017
An agreement in Washington to raise the debt limit could have huge ramifications for regulation, says Tabb Group founder and research chairman Larry Tabb, who, in this week’s market structure …
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