Derivs - Interest Rate

The European Commission and the Monetary Authority of Singapore have agreed to mutually recognise their respective trading venues for derivatives.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has amended its margin comparability determination for Japan, further recognising the equivalence of US and Japanese rules on swaps.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has agreed to ease regulations surrounding the use of swaps in connection with loans offered by banks.

Six major dealer banks have signed up to DTTC-Euroclear GlobalCollateral’s collateral settlement proposition as the initiative moves beyond pilot phase.

Eurex Clearing has expanded the capabilities of its real-time, cloud-based risk management tool Prisma.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has shelved plans to give itself increased regulatory powers over central counterparty clearing houses (CCPs).

Bangkok Capital Asset Management (BCAP) has become the latest firm to sign up to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) Central Trade Manager (CTM) platform.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has launched the open-source interest rates and credit derivatives version of its technology solution ISDA common domain model (CDM), which establishes standard data conventions for derivatives trade events and processes.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has warned that regulatory proposals for calculating derivatives contract exposure could lead to an uneven playing field and increased costs.

Two London-based traders from Bank of America’s macro trading business have resigned, GlobalCapital understands.

The Futures Industry Association (FIA) has warned that a diverging global regulatory framework is leading to increased fragmentation across derivatives markets.

Gresham Technologies and RegTek.Solutions have partnered to offer a new solution that enables firms to reconcile front-office trading records.