One Year Ago In Derivatives Week

The Coalition for Derivatives End-Users was planning to blitz Washington, D.C., lawmakers in hopes of getting a broad exemption from margin, central clearing and reporting for end users (DW, 4/9). [A narrow exemption for end users from clearing, but not margining, was written into the final Dodd-Frank Act (DW, 4/16), but the debate hasn't ended as Republican lawmakers recently introduced a new bill that would broaden and solidify that exemption for end users.]