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Euroclear Collateral Conference | Materials
Euroclear have published on-line the entire suite of materials from the recent conference in Paris covering a wide range of topics including their new Highway and related services. Kurt Jarnigan from...
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Optimizing the Cost of Customization for OTC Derivatives End Users
Optimizing the Cost of Customization for OTC Derivatives End Users For those of you who haven’t seen it I recommend the article with the above title in the paper at the attached link (starts on page...
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Regulatory Change in Sec Lending (SBL, Repo) | BoNY Mellon
Mike Barrett (profile here) sent over a useful paper on how new regulations will affect the securities lending market, summary below. Whilst we all assume the OTC market is undergoing some small...
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Third Easter Repository | OTC Space Enters the Competition
Press release: The OTC Space is proud to announce its launch into the crowded trade reporting space and believes it brings new thinking to the challenge: - Partnership with key leaders in managing ‘big...
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Pro-Cyclicality, CVA and CCDS
There’s been some recent news surrounding EU legislators exempting corporates, sovereigns and pension funds from mandatory CVA capital requirements under CRD IV (see article). Arguments for these...
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FTT and its impact on corporate and sovereign debt
A new report is out on the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) and its impact on corporate and sovereign debt, written by London Economics on behalf of the Regulatory Strategy Group (RSG) and sponsored by...
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IDBs shifting from SEFs to futures exchanges?
The attached article from FOX news indicates IDBs are making initial moves to set up new futures exchanges including: - GFI filed to set up the GFI Futures Exchange LLC (just filed with CFTC for...
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Two New Studies criticise EU Financial Transaction Tax
New studies conducted by the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) and interdealer broker ICAP address the impact of the EU Financial Transaction Tax on the repo and securities financing...
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Naked CDS Ban Fuels Bank Funding Fears – FT.com
An interesting article in FT.com analysing the impact of the ban on buying naked sovereign CDS protection, six months on. Considering the close correlation between large European banks and sovereigns,...
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Turkish Law Firm Recommendation| Help Wanted
Iona Levine, well known to everyone as the previous General Counsel at LCH, and co-founder of Minerva Chambers, will be in Istanbul and is looking to meet local law firms with a view to bringing...
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