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Futures firms and swaps market participants may be on the hook for big bucks to buy systems that record nearly all phone conversations their employees make, including those via cellphones, if a Commodity Futures Trading Commission plan takes effect. -
The cost for entering derivatives with an Australian counterparty may go up if local regulators don’t further clarify close out netting legislation and bring it on par with English and American law, according to a recently submitted comment letter from the the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.
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Hedge funds are reducing short positions in single-name European financial credit default swaps in anticipation of the fallout from a ban on short selling of financial stocks in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has extended no-action relief allowing several Commodity Futures Trading Commission-registered derivatives clearing organizations to clear swaps for U.S. mutual fund firms.
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The proverbial elephant in the room this week has to be the downgrade of the U.S. sovereign rating from ‘AAA’ to ‘AA+’ by Standard & Poor’s.
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Credit default swaps spreads on Bank of America widened to 375 basis points, its highest level since April 2009, before closing at 345 bps on concerns that the worsening European debt crisis will spread elsewhere and send the U.S. economy into another recession.
