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  • Major banks and their counterparties in Canada, Japan and the US entered a last gasp drive this week to comply with new margin rules on uncleared derivative trades ahead of Thursday’s deadline. But while most of the market looked to have averted disaster on the day, one of the key regulatory officials behind the rules had harsh words for the way in which they had been imposed.
  • The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is awaiting the ruling in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit over whether an enforcement action made against PHH Mortgage was legal and constitutional, in the first such suit against the regulator.
  • The pressure is on market participants and regulators to up their green game, as November’s COP22 conference in Monaco November approaches. Stakeholders will want to get as much done as they can to define green bonds before governments get involved.
  • The United States has unseated the United Kingdom from its long dominance of over-the-counter interest rate swaps (IRS) trading, according to an industry report this week.
  • In concert with Thursday’s roll out of margin rules for uncleared swaps, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has gone live with an industry standard model to calculate initial margin on uncleared derivatives trades.
  • Even with the flood of bankers leaving banks to join the fintech revolution — in which it seems every move has some mind-blowing potential impact on the future of finance — former Royal Bank of Scotland banker Richard Bartlett’s move to start-up ‘social impact’ short-term lender Uberima is unique.