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Kennett Square, Pa., advisor Chatham Financial plans to launch a currency hedging platform within its microfinance arm, Cygma, later this year in Luxembourg. The aim is to capitalize on USD1-1.5 billion that investors would like to invest in microfinance, but can’t because of excessive currency risk.
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The U.K.’s newly formed coalition government appears to have ruled out plans to introduce a tax on financial transactions. The move, which will be cheered by the U.K. banking sector, will come as a blow to other E.U. countries, such as Germany, where politicians are making the case for transaction taxes to be implemented as a way of offsetting the cost of the E.U. bailout fund. -
Proposed Securities & Exchange Commission language beefing up offering, disclosure and reporting requirements for privately offered asset-backed securities could wind up applying to structured notes.
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Edouard Vieillefond, head of regulatory policy and international affairs at France’s Autorité des Marchés Financiers, told Derivatives Week this morning that although the regulator is in favour of curbing speculation, Germany’s decision last night to ban naked sovereign CDS trading will be extremely challenging to enforce.
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End-users are hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst. Over the next week they will be pushing harder than ever for a stronger exemption from clearing and margin requirements, focusing their efforts on the clarification of vague definitions in the current Senate bill, slated for a vote next week.
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National and European lawmakers could end up deciding whether over-the-counter fx trades will be cleared in their respective markets, not the European Commission, according to Patrick Pearson, head of financial markets infrastructure at the Commission.
