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  • Robert Pickel, executive vice chairman of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, defended sovereign credit default swaps, calling them valuable hedging tools and saying they could increase liquidity in the underlying debt, during a testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets.
  • The U.S. Senate Financial Reform Bill may be some way from becoming law, but that hasn’t stopped attorneys from scouring every clause, looking for a loophole.
  • The People’s Bank of China is looking to issue a public notice giving the green light a trial test for banks in China to trade renminbi-denominated credit default swaps referencing onshore names.
  • Hope in the industry for more moderate over-the-counter derivatives reform has faded further on the announcement that Republicans will allow the Democrat-led U.S. Financial Reform Bill onto the Senate floor for debate without a bipartisan compromise on derivatives
  • Michel Barnier, commissioner for internal market and services at the European Commission, has reassured U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that Europe is committed to avoiding regulatory arbitrage in over-the-counter derivatives regulation, adding that the EC is working closely with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on possible reforms.
  • The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has yet to approve a request, filed in January, from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to begin trading futures on the S&P 500 Dividend Index.