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The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has enhanced its trading book rules, forcing firms to apply higher capital requirements to offset the risks of complex instruments, such as derivatives.
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Emerging market credit default swaps recently went from monthly maturities to quarterly.
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Retail and institutional investment flows in structured products in Switzerland are trending up, rising to CHF227 billion in April from CHF225 billion in March, according to the Swiss Structured Products Association’s latest market update our today.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s decision to hold public hearings to consider position limits in electricity, oil and natural gas trading is being tagged by some industry players as political posturing.
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The U.S. National Conference of Insurance Legislators was due to vote last Thursday on model legislation that could have banned naked credit default swaps—swaps where the buyer does not own the underlying bonds or loans. But after two hours of testimony and debate, the vote was deferred until NCOIL’s annual meeting in November, Susan Nolan, executive director, told Derivatives Week.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is calling on Congress to discourage the use of customized over-the-counter derivatives through conservative capital requirements and to require full pricing transparency. In a hearing this morning before the House Agriculture and Financial Service committees, he said rules were needed to “encourage substantially greater use of standardized OTC derivatives.”