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Market participants are likely to continue using streaming prices and request-for-quote when credit derivatives are mandated to be traded on swap execution facilities, as opposed to trading on a central limit order book, according to panelists at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s Annual North America Conference in New York on Thursday.
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The market needs to ensure greater margin efficiency for buyside firms to produce returns for their clients, while the introduction of swap execution facilities is leaving buysiders with greater risk, according to Richard Prager, board member at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and head of global trading at BlackRock.
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A European Court of Justice judge has opined that the European Securities and Markets Authority should not have the power to intervene in national law to prohibit short selling financial instruments in emergencies. The move has some raising the possibility that the E.U. short selling regulation, which includes the ban on naked sovereign credit default swaps, may be reworked.
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The Australian Securities Exchange’s over the counter derivatives clearinghouse cleared the first Australian dollar interest rate swap on Thursday between the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Deutsche Bank.
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Firms operating in Europe are testing client clearing for interest rate swaps prior to the introduction of clearing deadlines in the European Market Infrastructure Regulation. -
The Japan Securities Clearing Corp. is looking to clear yen-denominated interest rate swaptions and could start clearing interest rate swaps denominated in other foreign currencies in 2014.
