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Firm compliance teams are swinging into action to prepare for potential registration as swap dealers—or at least to figure out, along with the business side, whether they will avoid having to enroll. -
Gay Huey Evans is the ultimate derivatives bigwig. She has been involved in swaps and derivatives for more than 30 years in roles as a regulator and trade association chief, as well as holding senior positions at major buyside and sellside firms and exchanges. She now resides at the latter two, as a non-executive director at the London Stock Exchange and Aviva.
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Derivatives dealers, with buyside input, are on the cusp of releasing a new documentation protocol that should allow end users to easily make representations and provide disclosures to their sellside counterparts. The protocol will allow the industry to quickly update Master Agreements in time for the supposed Oct. 15, 2012 deadline set out by U.S. regulators for new business conduct standards under Dodd-Frank.
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A proposal from the Bank of International Settlement’s Risk Management Group to alter the current exposure method—or CEM--for qualifying central counterparties, also known as licensed CCPs, has been opposed by industry associations.
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Lawmakers must introduce legislation that is product and asset specific in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, according to Kay Swinburne, member of the European Parliament.
