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The Bank of England is to provide a liquidity back-stop to central counterparty clearing houses and brokers deemed critical to the stability of the UK financial system, shoring up so-called ‘too big to fail’ clearing houses in times of crisis. -
Regulators must work together to oversee clearing houses because, although they diminish risk they do not do away with it, Timothy Massad, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has said.
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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is going to extend the no-action relief that was previously provided for trading certain package transactions on swap execution facilities, said Timothy Massad, CFTC Chairman at the 30th annual Futures & Options Expo in Chicago on Wednesday.
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It is apparent to all market participants that volatility, so long dormant during the quantitative easing-saturated era, has returned in recent weeks.
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MSCI has announced record levels of listed futures and options based on its indices in 2014, noting that changes in the market including global equities, passive management and increased regulation of over-the-counter instruments have brought with them new users.
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Institutional investors such as asset managers and some pension funds looking to track benchmarks are switching out of futures and into exchange traded funds (ETFs), which are increasingly offering better liquidity and lower trading costs, as banking regulation increases the cost of trading futures contracts.
