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Regulations issued by the Bank of Thailand earlier this month have cleared up questions over what hedging and speculative transactions are allowed by Thai banks and investors, particularly when the trades reference foreign assets or are done with a foreign counterparty.
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Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has pushed back on certain points of the Obama administration’s draft Over-the-Counter Derivatives Markets Act of 2009, a consolidation of previously voiced positions on the market.
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A taskforce within a subcommittee of the American Bar Association is looking into mutual funds’ usage of derivatives and leverage, focusing on potential improvements in three areas: the legislative framework, disclosure requirements and board oversight.
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The U.K. Financial Services Authority has struck an agreement with the U.K. Financial Ombudsman Service, an independent body that settles claims between consumers and financial firms, to defer decisions on cases relating to Lehman Brothers-backed structured products for the second time in six months.
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CME Group will not be establishing a credit default swap default fund separate from the one covering futures and options, Kim Taylor, president of CME Clearing, told Derivatives Week. The move is in contrast to IntercontinentalExchange Clear Europe and Eurex, which have separate funds.
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The China Banking Regulatory Commission’s new derivatives regulations have cast doubt over what the role off-shore banks can play when selling to local corporates and institutions.
