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The Americas derivatives community came together in New York to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements across the industry
The derivatives market gathered in London on Thursday night to celebrate its leading players
Internal restrictions mean SSAs issue fewer CMS-linked notes
JP Morgan and Dutch pension fund PGGM transacted derivatives margin trade
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Tullett Prebon has filed an application to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to become a swap execution facility under Dodd-Frank, three weeks after the final SEF rules became effective.
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The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act generally imposes a 30% withholding tax on (i) withholdable payments (generally, U.S. source interest and dividends and gross proceeds from a disposition of equity and debt instruments issued by U.S. persons); (ii) foreign passthru payments (a term yet to be defined), if such payments are made to a foreign financial institution that fails to provide certain information about its account holders to the Internal Revenue Service; and (iii) certain payments made by an FFI to an account holder that fails to establish whether it is a U.S. person (or whether it is a non-U.S. entity owned by U.S. persons).
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Regulatory requirements that would force banks to make significant investments in IT and infrastructure that couldn’t be reused in different jurisdictions would be a worrying outcome for dealers, according to Eric Auld, global head of fx at BNP Paribas in London. -
—Eddie Wang, head of fx structuring, Asia global markets division at Crédit Agricole in Hong Kong, on what Asian currencies are suffering most from poor economic data in the region and the likelihood of the U.S. Federal Reserve winding down its bond buying program.
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Japan’s Financial Services Agency and its central bank called on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to shelve regulations for swap dealer registration until a global consensus on the rules could be formed.
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Naresh Malhotra, the former co-head of North American correlation trading at Merrill Lynch in New York, has joined SunGard as a client solutions design specialist in risk management and trading, also in New York.
