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--Sharon Bowles, chair of the European Parliament's influential Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, on Germany's decision to ban naked CDS trading on eurozone sovereign bonds.
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On March 1, 2010 after many months of work, he International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the International Islamic Financial Market jointly issued the first Shari'ah-compliant master agreement for over-the-counter derivatives. Named the "ISDA / IIFM Ta'Hawwut Master Agreement" it provides a framework for the expansion of derivatives activity in the Middle East, South Asia and many regions throughout the world where hedging is not standard practice.. Based on the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement, the Ta'Hawwut Agreement has been developed under the guidance and approval of the IIFM Shari'ah Advisory Panel. The Ta'Hawwut Agreement is therefore expected to be used as a reference for market participants where they or their customers need to hedge risks in line with Shari'ah principles.
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Sharon Bowles, chair of the European Parliament’s influential Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, told Derivatives Week that E.U. politicians will propose a 25% cap on bank ownership stakes in clearing houses, rather than a complete ban.
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The sovereign credit default swaps market exhibited the now ubiquitous volatility this week, with the Markit SovX Western Europe index reaching a wide level of 152bp on May 25. But the news flow surrounding eurozone sovereigns was unusually light, and spread direction was instead determined largely by fresh geopolitical turmoil, the plummeting euro and the fragile European banking system.
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Correlation across asset classes has rocketed as disparate markets react to sovereign debt problems. The move has some arguing derivative book hedges are going to need to be radically re-hedged somehow. But there is also a camp that sees the spike as short-term background noise that can be ignored.
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Foreign banks in China are scoping setting up licensed subsidiaries, as opposed to branch offices, because they think regulators are going to let those subsidiaries get more active in onshore trading.