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A bill proposed earlier this month by U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) could force dealers to pay an excise tax on the sale and purchase of options, drastically increasing trading costs.
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Noteholders of a Lehman Brothers residential mortgage-backed securities deal are today meeting to decide with the issuer whether to terminate a swap agreement with the fallen firm and whether to file claims against it for missed swap payments.
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A bevy of Street firms has formed a coalition to fight criticism related to credit default swap trading— which has been tagged by some observers as a major contributor to the financial crisis.
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Multiple central counterparties for clearing credit default swaps are not a good idea. That’s according to research from Darrell Duffie, a finance professor at Stanford University, and PhD student Haoxiang Zhu, who also argue central clearing of only one type of instrument will bring about severe challenges when netting off exposures.
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The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has all but completed a set of protocols allowing counterparties currently using the close-out approach for early contract termination in the 1992 Master Agreement to be bound instead by the 2002 methodology.
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Credit default swaps on the U.K. widened after the nation’s Office for National Statistics yesterday classified Lloyds Banking Group and the Royal Bank Of Scotland as public sector entities, shifting an estimated GBP1-1.5 trillion (USD1.44-2.16 billion) in liabilities to the British taxpayer.