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The Asia Pacific Regional Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions has written to Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for internal market and services in Brussels, warning that derivatives trading could dry up in Asia if central counterparties there are not granted a six-month extension to complete equivalence assessments that allow them to be recognized as qualifying CCPs under European Markets Infrastructure Regulation.
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The European Commission has published a legislative proposal for a regulation on financial benchmarks. The proposed Regulation aims to address concerns about the integrity and accuracy of benchmarks by regulating administrators of benchmarks, contributors to benchmarks and benchmark users. The Regulation will also prohibit the use in the E.U. of unauthorised benchmarks, including benchmarks prepared by unregistered non-E.U. administrators from non-equivalent jurisdictions.
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Barclays credit strategists have called for a more comprehensive bail-in package in restructuring credit events than the one proposed in the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s latest draft definitions.
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The Ontario Securities Commission's final rules covering product determination, and trade repositories and derivatives data reporting are increasingly concerning market participants since no entity has been designated a trade repository in Canada yet.
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Nick Tranter, head of FIG equities coverage at HSBC in London, has become head of equity sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa in the firm’s global banking and markets division, also in London.
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Hong Kong’s over-the-counter derivatives clearinghouse has cleared a U.S. dollar, renminbi non-deliverable forward and a Hong Kong dollar interest rate swap after beginning clearing operations on Monday.