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European Union member states are pushing back against the European Commission’s June 13 proposal on supervising clearing houses (CCPs), which could forcefully relocate systemically important institutions to within the EU, with questions of sovereignty and liquidity fragmentation arising.

Natixis has hired Bryan North-Claus as head of fixed income sales Americas, as part of the French bank's push to improve its American business.

Lewis Kaden, a former vice chairman at Citi, has taken a position on the advisory board of Baton Systems, the fintech payments processing company.

Trump’s first Democrat pick for commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Rostin Behnam, was sworn in on Wednesday. He joins Brian Quintenz, who participated in the ceremony three weeks ago.

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) on Wednesday announced a spate of changes to its senior management, all due to be enacted in October, including the replacement of veteran president of ICE Futures Europe David Peniket with Stuart Williams.

The drama surrounding credit default swaps referencing Noble Group escalated this week as the Asia Ex-Japan International Swaps and Derivatives Association determinations committee on Thursday pushed back the deadline for ruling on whether Noble has defaulted.

Market participants have a lot of work still to do in preparing data and systems for the introduction of MiFID II and MiFIR, and getting the right technology is only part of what they need to do, according to the chief executive of a fintech firm specialising in the area.

Banks scrambled this week to trigger credit default swaps on the back of Noble Group’s loan restructuring in June, after the Asian International Swaps and Derivatives Association determinations committee decided to dismiss the issue, a lawyer has told GlobalCapital.

Two Société Générale bankers have been indicted for allegedly manipulating Libor and causing $170m worth of damage to global financial markets, the American Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday.

Derivatives counterparties in the US have made enormous strides towards compliance with the September 1 end date for a grace period on variation margin rules for uncleared swaps, a stark change from six months ago.

The European Commission said on Wednesday that it wants to bring down “remaining and new barriers” to integrating post-trade services across the European Union. It launched a public consultation, which will run until mid-November, and could be followed by legislative change next year.

The new chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Christopher Giancarlo, chose Bruce Tuckman to succeed Sayee Srinivasan as the regulatory body’s chief economist on Monday.