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Supporters claim smart derivative contracts remove need for central counterparties
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Bain Capital has given in to a laundry list of demands from investors as they snubbed bonds for Kantar, resulting in a delay to the deal's schedule. In a rare case of aggressive investor push-back, covenants have now been flexed to the extreme and initial price thoughts look surprisingly high, given the exceptionally favourable market for new issuers. -
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has flagged a lack of consensus among market participants on how to tackle pre-cessation issues for interbank offered rates, while calling on regulators to provide more clarity.
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LCH has become the first CCP to offer clearing of swaps benchmarked to the new European Central Bank euro short-term reference rate, €STR.
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The World Bank is hoping to step up its activity as an intermediary in commodity hedging transactions, providing credit enhancements for its clients in their arrangements with insurers to protect them from external shocks
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has called for improvement in national regulators’ supervision of derivatives data.
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The Bank of England should extend Libor beyond its set date of 2021 — or risk financial institutions setting their own rules.
