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The European Central Bank’s European Systemic Risk Board has urged companies that use derivatives to hedge risk to complete transactions through central clearing counterparties, rather than through banks, to avoid risks and high fees.
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong have called on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to review proposed swaps regulations under the Dodd-Frank Act.
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The Futures Industry Association and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association have jointly published their FIA-ISDA Cleared Derivatives Addendum, a template for U.S. futures commission merchants and their customers for documenting their relationship with respect to cleared over-the-counter swaps.
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Switzerland’s Federal Council has decided to introduce tougher regulations for over-the-counter derivatives along with changes to financial market infrastructure, saying the existing Swiss infrastructure is “no longer appropriate given the developments on the financial markets.”
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The Investment Management Association has called on the U.K. government to reconsider an exemption for interest-rate and fx hedges from the proposed ring-fencing of bank’s retail operations in light of the recent scandal involving the mis-selling of interest rate swaps.
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The U.S. banking industry is pressing regulators to broaden an exemption to a ban on proprietary trading in the Volcker rule, arguing that the current proposal is too strict and will make it more difficult for them to hedge risks.