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Amendments to one of South Korea’s key financial regulations, designed to regulate mandatory central clearing of over-the-counter derivatives, should allow for mutual recognition of overseas clearinghouses.
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The International Islamic Financial Market has launched an “IIFM interbank unrestricted master investment wakalah (agency) agreement” aimed at helping financial institutions manage their liquidity requirements.
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The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has written to the Bank of England to warn against regulating for full asset segregation. Draft European Markets Infrastructure Regulation proposals to segregate margin deposits of individual clients in futures swaps were originally designed to offer greater client protection in case of counterparty default.
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Mainland Chinese corporates are unwilling to provide credit support annex documents when entering cross-border derivative contracts, making it difficult for foreign dealers to sell hedging products, such as fx forwards and options, to their Chinese corporate clients.
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The European Commission has set a deadline of the end of the year for the European Securities and Markets Authority to deliver technical advice on supervisory measures and the collection of fines from trade repositories, as set out by the European Market Infrastructure Regulation.
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The Reserve Bank of India is looking to improve the availability of long-term over-the-counter fx forwards by developing the country’s money market and interest rate swaps market, making it easier to price forwards with tenors greater than one year.