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Overall credit default swap notional that was reported to swap data repositories last week increased by 49% from the previous week, according to data from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, continuing a multi-week trend of increasing notional.
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BGC Partners has increased its all-cash tender offer to acquire GFI Group to $5.45 per share, representing a $.20 premium per share compared to CME Group's offer. -
The Basel Committee announced in December that it is seeking opinions on a proposal to establish a capital floor framework based on a standardised approach to credit risk, with the Committee arguing that a standardised capital floor is necessary to offset difficulties created by relying on bank’s internally modelled approaches. According to research from Deutsche Bank, Swedish institutions are likely to be some of the hardest-hit when the rules come in.
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The Financial Conduct Authority is focusing its risk-based oversight efforts in four critical areas of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation for 2015 – trade reporting quality, clearing services provision continuity from clearing members, market readiness for the clearing obligation, and the bilateral requirements for non-cleared trades. This comes as February marks the first year anniversary of trade reporting under the regulation.
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Jefferies, which reports a month before the major US houses, had a shocking quarter in September, October and November, suggesting dismal numbers in the post for the rest of the industry.
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Electronic bond trading provider MarketAxess has identified only 39 corporate bonds it considered liquid in the third quarter this year, from a universe of around 200,000, a ratio that poses huge challenges to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s attempt to introduce equity-like transparency to the fixed income market as part of the Markets In Financial Instruments Directive.
