Latest regulation & clearing news

• Bloomberg bolsters reg reporting product with RegTek buy

  

  Bloomberg has acquired regulatory consultancy and technology company RegTek Solutions as it pushes to strengthen its regulatory reporting product.

  • 14 Aug 2019

• CCPs push back on default recommendations

  

  The Global Association of Central Counterparties (CCP12) has warned against further regulation of default management auctions and the risk of adopting a “one-size-fits-all” auction approach to central counterparty clearing houses (CCPs).

  • 12 Aug 2019

• Tarbert adds to bench with CFTC hires

  

  The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has appointed Summer K. Mersinger as director of the office of legislative and intergovernmental affairs and Suyash G. Paliwal as director of the office of international affairs.

  • 08 Aug 2019

• NSE and SGX make move for peace with index hub

  

  India’s National Stock Exchange and Singapore Exchange have received the initial greenlight to bring together the trading of Indian equity index products at a hub in Western India. The move aims to create a larger pool of liquidity comprising both international and Indian market participants.

  • 07 Aug 2019

• Eurex powers up double digit trading boost

  

  Eurex Exchange on Tuesday reported a strong set of numbers for the month of July, with its number of contracts traded rising 18% year on year.

  • 05 Aug 2019

• Berkovitz calls for more clearing diversity, laments FCM fall

  

  US Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner Dan Berkovitz has called for an increase in the capacity and diversity of clearing services, citing the danger of a large clearing firm failing.

  • 01 Aug 2019

• CFTC fines floor broker for futures spoofing

  

  The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sanctioned trader and CFTC-registered floor broker Benjamin Cox for alleged spoofing.

  • 01 Aug 2019

• ISDA selects Bloomberg for fallback provision

  

  The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has selected Bloomberg Index Services to assist with fallbacks provision as the derivatives industry prepares to transition away from Libor as its standard reference rate.

  • 01 Aug 2019

• Rigging Libor was wrong but so is tossing away the benchmark

  

  UBS and Citi trader Tom Hayes was jailed for 11 years for manipulating Libor. But while the trader argued that he was made a scapegoat for the financial crisis, perhaps the rate he rigged is a bigger victim.

  • 30 Jul 2019

• OCC appoints two to board

  

  Equity derivatives clearer the Options Clearing Corporation has appointed Susan O'Flynn and Stuart Bourne to its board of directors.

  • 30 Jul 2019

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