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Dealers have been renegotiating the credit rating trigger levels in new master agreements with pension funds over the last quarter.
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Citigroup is rolling out a new issue of unfunded synthetic balance sheet collateralized loan obligation notes from its Terra II CLO program.
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Mary Johannes, director of U.S. public policy at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, said she believed the U.S. over-the-counter legislation and regulation had a 50/50 chance of passing, at the ISDA annual regional conference in New York. [President Barack Obama signed the U.S. Dodd-Frank Act into law July 21 and the sweeping changes it will bring to the OTC industry have been the subject of constant debate, including at this year's ISDA annual regional conference (see conference coverage).]
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--Chris Bates, partner at Clifford Chance, on the difference in how European and U.S. lawmakers have approached to derivatives legislation..
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Almost all of International Swaps and Derivatives Association's primary members will be captured in the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's definition of a swap dealer, Gary Gensler, chairman of the CFTC, said last week at the International Swaps and Derivatives annual regional conference in New York. It could mean that institutions other than dealers, such as insurance companies and corporates, could be caught under the definition.
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The global equity market outlook for the rest of the year appears, more than usual, to be lacking direction. September has been marked by a healthy rally (MSCI World is up 7.2% month-to-date), but we are just back to levels of early May and still down since the start of the year. A forward-looking indicator like VIX, after dipping to a low of 15.58 in mid-April and spiking to a high of 45.79 in mid-May, is now back to 22, just two points above 20, where it began the year.