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The Financial Conduct Authority is focusing its risk-based oversight efforts in four critical areas of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation for 2015 – trade reporting quality, clearing services provision continuity from clearing members, market readiness for the clearing obligation, and the bilateral requirements for non-cleared trades. This comes as February marks the first year anniversary of trade reporting under the regulation.
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The European Commission has agreed to postpone the start of the frontloading requirement for cleared interest rate derivatives as proposed in the regulatory technical standards submitted by the European Securities and Markets Authority. -
Banks operating with large swaps trading operations will no longer be required to relocate their trading to a separate legal entity that is not federally insured following the rollback of Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Act. As a result, banks will avoid incurring significant expenses, while saving time and personnel, according to lawyers.
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The implementation of a stay on the contract termination rights of derivative counterparties by global regulators could change the face of derivatives trading, forcing counterparties to look at amending their agreements away from the prevalent two-way payment system, according to lawyers.
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Société Générale’s Newedge prime services business has added LCH.Clearnet’s ForexClear as a new central counterparty clearing houses to its client over-the-counter clearing offering, allowing it clients to clear non-deliverable forwards.
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If one were to look at the week-on-week change of the main credit indices, it would be perfectly understandable to assume that it was another uneventful few days in the markets. The Markit iTraxx Europe was trading at 61.5bp on December 18, just 1.5bp wider than the previous week. The Markit CDX.NA.IG was 3bp tighter at 66bp over the same period.
