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  • Not all derivatives on all days are suited to electronic trading, according to interdealer brokers.
  • The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s plan setting capital requirements for swap dealers and major swap participants promises to favor the bank holding companies (BHCs) and foreign bank subsidiaries that already dominate the markets, while squeezing out newer entrants, according to Jefferies & Co.
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission should carve out a safe harbor in its plan to impose new anti-fraud and anti-manipulation requirements on security-based swap transactions, according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
  • Industry associations and U.K. firms have warned the Independent Banking Commission about the implications that ring fencing could have on a banking group’s derivatives use.
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) pitched her controversial mortgage refinancing plan to the Street on Tuesday, but analysts said that even if it is passed, it won’t start the refi wave investors fear.
  • Counterparties should not have to post margin for non-cleared swaps on the same day of execution, nor should covered swap entities be barred from netting initial and variation margin requirements across asset classes and financial products, say the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association in a joint comment letter to bank regulators last week.