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Icap: Sefs could lead to ‘sub-optimal hedging’
Moving NDFs to trade on Sefs could mean less hedging at longer end of the curve, says senior executive at Icap
Lawyers really know how to complain. There’s something coldly surgical about the language they deploy – wielding adjectives like scalpels, listing grievances with exhaustive, deliberate skill. As an...
Trading venue looks to hedge its bets if it fails to close the margin gap between OTC swaps and futures
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Sefs: Dead on arrival?
Bloomberg is threatening to sue the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission over uneven margin rules that it fears will drive the market away from swaps and into new futures contracts. Peter Madigan reports
Bloomberg threatens to sue CFTC over swap futures margin
Futurisation sparks struggle between exchanges and Sefs. Bloomberg fears "irreversible harm"
Libor 2.0: The runners and riders
From home loans to bonds and interest rate swaps, a host of very different markets are linked to Libor, which makes it difficult to replace the damaged benchmark. A number of alternatives are available, but disparate products may be better served by disparate...
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Sefs hit by Dodd-Frank disclosure rules
New trading platforms must enable dealers to make pre-trade disclosures – but industry doesn't know what information needs to be provided
Risk 25 firms of the future: Sefs/OTFs
It sometimes feels like everyone wants to be a swap execution facility (Sef). The problem is that no one knows for sure what the precise requirements will be. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission published its proposals in January 2011 but, at the...
People: UBS poaches Edwards from RBS and Naylor from Deutsche
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