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Some 25 banks signed China’s National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors (NAFMII) master agreement at an official ceremony in Beijing earlier today.
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Law firm Russin & Vecchi has advised the International Swaps and Derivatives Association to add language within its 1992 and 2002 Master Agreement that would clear up uncertainties surrounding payments in the event of a default.
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The International Derivatives Clearing Group has sold a minority stake to a strategic partner, Bank of New York Mellon, and foresees further deals to financial entities that can add value to its clearing service.
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A group of industry representatives sent a report to the Fed Supervisory Committee yesterday outlining complex legal analysis targeted at clearing up concerns over buyside access to central counterparties for OTC derivatives. It specifically addresses how to protect customers’ initial margins should an entity in a clearinghouse fail and recommends that swaps be treated as commodities under the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.
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The draft Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act, released last Tuesday by the U.S. Treasury, does not mention structured products, temporarily quelling fears that the proposed agency would be tasked with cracking down on the growing U.S. retail market for complex instruments.
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The U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is investigating a series of credit default swap brokerage staffers in the belief they may have engaged in price collusion, after fining former ICAP Corporates broker Jennifer Joan James yesterday.