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TriOptima has completed the largest energy portfolio compression cycle to date, eliminating 5000 transactions with a notional outstanding value of €8.4 billion.
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The chairman of the European Securities and Markets Authority has written to the European Commission to request the frontloading obligation for clearing under European Markets Infrastructure Regulation be limited to derivatives cleared between the entry into force of the regulatory technical standards and the beginning of the clearing obligation. Under EMIR, counterparties are currently required to frontload any trades that are caught when the asset class becomes available on an authorised CCP, which kicked off when NASDAQ OMX became the first clearinghouse to receive EMIR approval on March 18. -
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Clearing and Risk has issued a no action letter stating it will not take enforcement action against the Hong Kong Exchange’s over-the-counter derivatives clearinghouse OTC Clear for failing to register as a derivatives clearing organisation.
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The swap execution facility aggregation model, which allows market participants to connect to multiple SEFs without being a direct member, is favorable for buysiders who do not have the resources to connect to all facilities, according to speakers at the TABB Forum Derivatives 2014: A Market in Transition conference in Chicago, on Tuesday.
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The access to electronic trading systems and the proliferation of technology over recent years is allowing all market participants to compete in the financial markets, advantaging buysiders and other trading firms, according to Zem Sternberg ceo & managing partner at Lake Hill Capital Management.
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Hedge funds are buying payers in iTraxx Main with expiries in May or June and strikes around 90-and-95 basis points. The trade is designed to hedge against a potential widening of spreads in June.
