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  • Société Générale blamed an adverse environment for equity derivatives for the 54.5% decline in revenue from equity activities from the first quarter of 2010.
  • Chinese requests for credit guarantees from counterparty’s parent companies are still a sticking point with many offshore entities ahead of signing Chinese Master Agreements.
  • The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is set to release a consultation paper proposing new disclosure benchmarks for over-the-counter contracts for difference issuers in the country.
  • The specter of corporates defaulting on their derivative trades is being raised as lawmaker efforts to grant margin exemptions to the Dodd-Frank Act appear to have lost steam.
  • The right way to limit mutual funds’ leverage in derivatives investments is to require funds to set up “Risk-Adjusted Segregated Amounts” (“RAS Amounts”) based on the risk profiles of the derivatives a fund owns, said a task force of fund lawyers who have been studying this subject since early 2009.
  • The stalling of the European Commission’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive is fuelling the creation of new types of fund that are sparking worries among regulators, according to Nick O’Neill, partner at Clifford Chance in London.