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  • The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation’s Equity Derivatives Reporting Repository will gather information on all open equity derivatives positions of its 16 member firms from July 30. The information will be sent to regulators on August 13.
  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission task force recommendations can only work if investments in life settlements, not in the underlying policies, are defined as securities, according to industry watchers.
  • Draft proposals in Germany would limit foreign counterparties’ ability to terminate contracts with German institutions at risk of insolvency, which market participants fear will put a damper on trading with them.
  • The limited development of the derivatives markets in Asia-Pacific helped to reduce the potential losses to counterparties during the credit crisis three years ago, the Bank of International Settlements said today.
  • Buyside firms are looking for industry-wide standardized clearing documents in coming months as the newly-signed U.S. Dodd-Frank Act pushes much of the over-the-counter market towards central clearing.
  • The U.K. Financial Services Authority, H.M. Treasury and the Bank of England have given their support to a global framework for reporting information on derivatives to trade repositories, arguing that this would avoid regulatory arbitrage and data fragmentation.