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A month after trade reporting kicked off in Europe on February 12, the European Commission has adopted a delegated regulation that sets out procedure for penalties imposed on trade repositories. The document is intended as a supplement to the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation. -
The CDS cash basis of the UK remained largely unchanged in the first quarter of 2014, according to the Bank of England’s quarterly bulletin. The basis had steadily decreased for the second half of 2013 because of increased confidence among investors and a growing willingness to bear risk, leading to an increase in the supply of protection and a decline in CDS premia.
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The situation in Ukraine remains highly volatile, and growth appears to be flagging in China. Such a scenario would once have triggered risk aversion in the eurozone’s periphery, as well as in emerging markets.
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A central tenet of the Dodd-Frank Act is that standardized swap transactions must be centrally cleared through a Commodity Futures Trading Commission-registered derivatives clearing organization or a clearinghouse that is exempt from DCO registration. Dozens of articles and law firm client alerts have discussed this new clearing requirement and related issues, including the CFTC regulatory provisions governing the protection of cleared swaps customer collateral, commonly known as the LSOC model. Yet relatively little attention has been focused on the rules and regulations governing the basic day-to-day operation of DCOs, even though these provisions have important implications for swap market participants.
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Deutsche Bank has been given licensing rights to the Stoxx Europe Low Beta High Div 50 Index and plans to issue structured products linked to the underlying.
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Dealers in Hong Kong looking to issue fx-linked accumulators and decumulators will need to perform greater checks on an investor’s suitability for the product prior to executing a trade, according to a Hong Kong Monetary Authority circular.
