The FSB pushes hard on making trade reporting operational and legal (Premium)

July 10, 2017

Derivatives, EMIR, Financial Stability Board, Market infrastructure, OTC Derivatives Clearing, Regulatory, Systemic Risk

Financial Stability Board, legal data, OTC derivatives, Regulatory reform, topstory, trade reporting

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The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has been busy, with 10 substantive letters and reports released in the run up to the recent G20 summit. For this article, we took a look…

EU relaxes derivatives rules – smart economic policy or a reaction to global competition?

May 8, 2017

Josh Galper

CCP, Collateral Management, Derivatives, EMIR, Europe, Investments

CCPs, Clearing, collateral, derivatives, EMIR, Europe, topstory

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The European Union last week proposed simpler and more efficient derivatives rules, a move that is widely accepted as helpful for a wide range of corporations, pensions and smaller banks.…

Independent research, fee splits and agency securities lending under MiFID II

March 7, 2017

Richard Stinchfield

EMIR, Europe, Regulatory, Securities Lending

bank regulation, Europe, MiFID II, Regulatory, topstory

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MiFID II is becoming a major focus of attention for banks and other financial firms. How agent lenders charge for research, including market data and performance benchmarking, is a big…

Analysis: Pirum, IHS Markit and the challenge of SFTR (Premium)

March 6, 2017

Martin Walker

EMIR, Europe, Repo, Securities Lending

IHS Markit, Pirum, Securities Financing Transaction Regulation, SFTR, topstory

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The partnership announced by IHS Markit and Pirum Systems to provide a solution to the European Union’s Securities Finance Transaction Regulation (SFTR) demonstrates how seriously the industry and vendors are…

Commissioner Jonathan Hill speech: reduce reporting, less burden for smaller firms

May 18, 2016

Josh Galper

EMIR, Europe, Regulatory

Europe, Jonathan Hill, topstory

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Speech by Commissioner Jonathan Hill at the public hearing on the ‘Call for Evidence’ – a review of the EU regulatory framework for financial services Brussels, 17 May 2016 Selected…

LCH.Clearnet on stress testing CCPs, Part 2

April 1, 2015

Jonathan Cooper

Basel III, CCP, cover 2, Derivatives, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, OTC Derivatives Clearing, Regulatory

CCP, stress scenarios, topstory, Wired Magazine

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This is the second part of a 2-part post on LCH.Clearnet’s just published “Stress This House, A Framework for the Standardised Stress Testing of CCPs”, an analysis of risk management at…

LCH.Clearnet on stress testing CCPs, Part 1

March 31, 2015

Jonathan Cooper

CCP, Cleared Interest Rate Swaps, cover 2, Derivatives, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, IOSCO, OTC Derivatives Clearing, Regulatory, Risk Management

CMPI, Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures, LCH.Clearnet, RWA, topstory

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LCH.Clearnet has just published “Stress This House, A Framework for the Standardised Stress Testing of CCPs”, an analysis of risk management at CCPs. It is worth a look. This is…

Finadium: What the Buy-side Should Know About Netting

February 23, 2015

Josh Galper

Basel III, Derivatives, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, Prime Brokerage, Repo, Securities Lending

banks, brokers, hedge funds, netting, OTC derivatives, prime brokers, Repo, Securities Lending, topstory

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A new report from Finadium looks at what netting rules are most important for the buy-side, including hedge funds, asset managers and institutional investors, as they work to best position…

Finadium launches Finadium for Investors, a new subscription series

Finadium for Investors is a new service from Finadium designed for asset managers, hedge funds, plan sponsors and other purchasers of bank services, equities and fixed income products. This subscription…

Nomura wins Insurance Risk award for innovation in collateral transformation

December 4, 2014

Jonathan Cooper

Basel III, CCP, Cleared Interest Rate Swaps, Collateral Management, Derivatives, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, Repo

CCP, collateral, collateral transformation, HQLA, Nomura, topstory

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Nomura won an Insurance Risk innovation award for 2014 and we offer our congratulations. The interesting part is what they did to earn the award. This is part of an…

The Bank of England explicitly includes CCPs for LOLR access. It is good policy.

November 10, 2014

Jonathan Cooper

Bank of England, Basel III, CCP, Derivatives, EMIR, Europe, Regulatory

Bank of England, CCPs, Lender of Last Resort, topstory

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The Bank of England has just updated the Sterling Monetary Framework “Red Book”, adding explicit language about providing liquidity support to CCPs. This new liquidity backstop makes sense, but its easy…

The Bank of England on CCP default funds: is "cover 2" enough?

October 27, 2014

Jonathan Cooper

Bank of England, CCP, cover 2, Derivatives, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, Market infrastructure, OTC Derivatives Clearing, Regulatory

Bank of England, CCP, cover all, topstory

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The Bank of England recently published a paper “Dear Prudence, won’t you come out to play? Approaches to the analysis of central counterparty default fund adequacy” (Financial Stability Paper No.…

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The FSB pushes hard on making trade reporting operational and legal (Premium)

EU relaxes derivatives rules – smart economic policy or a reaction to global competition?

Independent research, fee splits and agency securities lending under MiFID II

Analysis: Pirum, IHS Markit and the challenge of SFTR (Premium)

Commissioner Jonathan Hill speech: reduce reporting, less burden for smaller firms

LCH.Clearnet on stress testing CCPs, Part 2

LCH.Clearnet on stress testing CCPs, Part 1

Finadium: What the Buy-side Should Know About Netting

Finadium launches Finadium for Investors, a new subscription series

Nomura wins Insurance Risk award for innovation in collateral transformation

The Bank of England explicitly includes CCPs for LOLR access. It is good policy.

The Bank of England on CCP default funds: is "cover 2" enough?

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