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The made-available-to-trade process is not fit for purpose and should be eliminated, according to Christopher Giancarlo, commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. -
The European Commission plans to tackle prospectus rules, SME credit scoring, revamped securitization rules, private placements and long term investment funds in the first phase of its plans to build a capital markets union.
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Market liquidity is at stake if a balance is not achieved between rules imposed by regulators and codes of conduct from within firms, according to David Clark, chairman of the Wholesale Markets Brokers Association in London.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority has raised concerns over the European Commission’s proposal for a three year exemption from clearing and collateral responsibilities for firms making intragroup interest rate derivatives transactions with third country entities, because such entities are not yet deemed to have regimes equivalent to the European Market Infrastructure Regulation.
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Volumes in market adjusted coupon swap trading are increasing due to margin efficiencies, increased liquidity and the ease of trading, according to speakers at the TABB Forum Fixed Income 2015 conference in New York on Thursday.
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As buyside firms transact in ever larger volumes, asset managers need to reduce the delta risk, known as DV01, the change in the value of their trades caused by a basis point change in rates. However, this is very difficult as capital requirements for investment banks mean that a dealer’s ability to warehouse risk for its buyside clients is diminished.
