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The Americas derivatives community came together in New York to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements across the industry
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Pension funds and other buy-side institutions are not prepared to meet new variation margin rules expected to come into force on March 1. And if they cannot trade, the regulation is not worth the paper it is written on, delegates heard at a conference in Luxembourg last week.
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In an age of irony, financial markets are hitting their peak. Measures of volatility, across almost any asset suggest squeezed trading ranges and pricing exactitude just as the most volatile US president in living memory settles into his new job. Something has to give.
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Credit and equity markets are “entirely unprepared” for volatility in the coming month, say traders, with any big surprises likely to wrong-foot swathes of market participants. -
The European Union this week added to the sense that global derivatives market regulation is set for a shake-up, with the European Securities and Market Authority calling for changes to “third country” central counterparty treatment and for a softer stance on how some market participants adhere to clearing rules.
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Deutsche Börse is working on a “collateralised coin” using blockchain technology, which it hopes could ease payments and the moves of collateral between the clearing members of its centralised counterparty (CCP), Eurex. The initiative follows closely on the heels of two earlier blockchain-inspired collaborative efforts that aim to ease cross-border collateral transfer and the securities settlement process.
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Following Lloyds Bank's creation of the "CB markets" division, combining trading with capital markets origination, James Garvey, the division’s boss, has laid out the management team for the new structure.
