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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.”
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is slated to update the House Agricultural Committee and House Financial Services Committee this morning on over-the-counter derivatives regulation. You can watch the hearing from 10am EST here
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The U.K. Treasury backs calls for risk-determined capital charges for derivatives that cannot be centrally cleared. In a report today it also revealed it supports U.S. and European Union efforts to require those trades to be reported to a central repository.
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Dealers have agreed to standardize credit default swap contracts in Japan, according to a person who attended the first meeting of the Japan CDS Standardization Working Group earlier today.
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Off-shore sellsiders are continuing to lobby against the latest proposals from Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission, which would stipulate that all products sold in the country by foreign banks are 100% capital protected.
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Credit default swaps on auto parts supplier Lear Corp. have been triggered, after the Americas Determinations Committee of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association met today to decide the fate of contracts on the name. The date on the settlement auction has yet to be set.