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This week, the Futures Industry Association held its 40th Annual Boca conference in Boca Raton, Florida where senior buysiders, sellsiders, exchanges, clearing houses, lawyers and other market officials met to dicuss the trading and regulatory landscape in the derivatives markets. The GlobalCapital team reported from the event, covering all the hot topics such as regional fragmentation, central counterparty equivalence, cross-border regulation, trading and execution requirements, and more.
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Swaps regulation needs to be overhauled in the US in order to stop trading flow moving away from trading centres in New York and elsewhere in the US to overseas markets, according to Christopher Giancarlo, Commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. GlobalCapital was granted an exclusive interview with Commissioner Giancarlo, to discuss how these flows can be reversed via regulatory harmonisation and global co-operation.
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The derivatives markets have undergone the biggest regulatory overhaul in history since the global financial crisis. But buysiders are failing to see any benefits to their trading operations apart from increased costs, according to speakers at the 40th Annual Futures Industry Association Boca Conference in Boca Raton, Florida.
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Competing markets and jurisdictions between China and Hong Kong pose regulatory uncertainty and liabilities as derivatives market participants transact on the Hong Kong-Shanghai Stock Connect, according to panellists at the Futures Industry Expo Conference in Boca Raton, Florida.
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If more banks are forced out of the clearing business as a result of the stringent leverage ratio rules under Basel III, then the remaining futures commissions merchants will not have the capacity to take on their clients, according to speakers at the 40th Annual Futures Industry Association Boca Conference in Boca on Tuesday.
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One of the greatest advantages of clearing for buyside participants is that they do not have to invest in derivatives documentation such as International Swaps and Derivatives Association master agreements and credit support annexes which are costly and time consuming for market participants, according to speakers as the 40th Annual Futures Industry Association Boca Conference in Boca on Tuesday.