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Changes to the UCITS directive that have been approved by the European Parliament under UCTIS IV are likely to simplify the registration and cross-border distribution process of compliant funds, according to Karen Anderberg, a partner at law firm Dechert in London.
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Credit default swaps on Canadian paper and pulp maker AbitibiBowater Inc. may have been triggered after the company said Friday it was looking to reduce interest payments and term out a loan maturing at the end of this month.
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A long-awaited report on the global banking crisis published today by Lord Adair Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, has given some derivatives practitioners comfort that the U.K. regulator will take a measured approach to the notion of regulating credit default swaps.
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China’s National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors published a new master agreement last Tuesday designed to consolidate existing agreements in the marketplace.
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Credit officials are beginning to assign a value to keeping modified restructuring (‘Mod R’) as an event trigger in credit default swaps. In a conference call this morning, trading heads at JPMorgan estimated the premium at 5-10% of spreads. -
ICE Trust has approval to start clearing and processing index trades. But industry experts note that a key goal of isolating margin funds—via a process called customer segregation—may only be achieved with a new law or a workaround from the superintendent of the New York Banking Department.
