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Supporters claim smart derivative contracts remove need for central counterparties
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The winning organisations will be announced at events in both London and New York in September
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The bid/offer spread has significantly contracted since US regulation requiring certain products to be traded on swap execution facilities became effective. UBS’ aggregation model Neo has seen spreads decrease on its SEF electronic order books by approximately 50%. -
Jeff Micsky has been appointed global derivatives head at JonesTrading Institutional Services, based in San Francisco.
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Joseph McIntyre, senior high yield credit analyst at Nomura in London, has left the firm. He is said to be heading to Bluecrest.
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I-Swap, an electronic interest rate swap platform operated by ICAP, traded a record 428 dollar interest rate swaps worth a notional volume of $17 billion in May, representing 23% of all dollar interest rate swap trades at ICAP.
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US regulators have created a swap execution facility regime that incentivises SEFs to issue made-available-to-trade determinations against contracts where they see potential liquidity, but that has led to a decline in volumes once the MAT becomes active, according to participants.
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A significant number of senior buy- and sellside participants think that the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II will have a negative impact upon liquidity, according to a survey conducted by MarketAxess and Trax.
