Derivs - Regulation
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Offshore firms looking to crack Taiwan’s lucrative structured retail market are hustling to clear high regulatory hurdles.
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The move to central clearing could spark the long tail risk hedging market.
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The Reserve Bank of India has published a draft report for the introduction of credit default swaps linked to corporate bonds and made clear it is against naked CDS trading.
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The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is seeking comments from market participants in Hong Kong regarding the index calculation methodology designed to work with the proposed launch of a volatility index on the Hang Seng Index.
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Barclays Capital has launched two new electronic services for over-the-counter fixed income derivatives—an interest rate swap portfolio compression tool and a closing price order tool.
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Industry groups in London are against the client categorization rules changes for over-the-counter derivatives proposed under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive.
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A draft bill circulated by the New York Assembly insurance committee that would have banned naked credit default swaps (DW, 3/22) will have to be scrapped since the U.S. Dodd-Frank Act expressly prohibits states from regulating swaps as insurance.
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The National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors is likely to overhaul its China Inter-bank Market Financial Derivative Transactions Master Agreement.
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As the Securities and Exchange Commission proceeds with its review of fund’s usage of derivatives, it has urged funds to take a fresh look at derivatives-related disclosures.
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Corporates could be impacted by rules being considered in Europe that would restrict short selling across all financial instruments, according to Rolls-Royce.
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Société Générale blamed an adverse environment for equity derivatives for the 54.5% decline in revenue from equity activities from the first quarter of 2010.
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Chinese requests for credit guarantees from counterparty’s parent companies are still a sticking point with many offshore entities ahead of signing Chinese Master Agreements.