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  • Rising costs for derivatives clearing and difficulties gaining access to dealers present a mounting challenge for small end users in the US and Europe, some of which may have to find other means to hedge risk, a study by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has found.
  • Icap has bought Abide Financial, a global regulatory reporting specialist.
  • Rules proposed by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission this week on cross-border swap trading are a good first step, according to lawyers, but more clarity is needed on how Dodd-Frank requirements will apply.
  • The acceleration of Europe’s push to impose margin on uncleared derivatives trades has galvanised big banks to ramp up clearing across products as they face a tighter deadline to comply than expected. The European Council’s timeline for approving the rules makes a January rollout likely, writes Dan Alderson.
  • JP Morgan’s chairman and chief executive was in a sympathetic mood in Washington at the Institute for International Finance last week, advocating a pause in the regulation of banks in Europe that would give them time to get on with financing the real economy.
  • The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is to hold an open hearing on its plans to introduce an industry benchmarks regulation, having recently published draft technical standards.