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The California Earthquake Authority has filed suit against Wells Fargo over losses it claims it suffered from investing in collateralized debt obligations.
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The spread between credit default swaps on Mexican and Brazilian bonds has disappeared in a reversal in spreads that at one point had been as wide as 72 basis points.
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ICAP and Nasdaq have taken steps to expand their over-the-counter operations and enhance transparency in the OTC market.
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Barclays Capital is ending its brief foray into the cash and synthetic life settlements market. Philippe Hatstadt, the managing director heading the effort, has left the firm.
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The group of 15 major over-the-counter dealers collectively cleared 93% of all eligible credit default swaps by Dec. 31, 2009, according to a draft of the March 1 letter to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The G15 set itself a collective target of 80% as of October.
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Jacques de Larosière, former governor of the Banque de France and chief executive of the International Monetary Fund, was given a mandate to propose a European cross-border supervisory framework, setting out which entity would regulate OTC derivatives. [The report, which was submitted to the European Parliament at the end of February 2009, recommended the implementation of four separate bodies, with the European Securities and Markets Authority overseeing derivatives. Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee recently amended the proposals for ESMA and renamed it the European Supervisory Authority (Securities and Markets) (DW, 2/10). Further amendments will be debated at an ECON Committee meeting on Tuesday, with a vote expected to take place towards the end of March.]