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US 'shooting itself in foot' with derivatives margin rules - Issa
Congressman Darrell Issa attacks margin rules that threaten to isolate US banks. Foreign regulators say they have no plans to copy the proposals
After the financial crisis of 2008–9, authorities needed to 'rehabilitate' corporate debtors to improve their creditworthiness. Why have they failed?
Collapse of Long Term Capital Management was due to excessive leverage and shows the perils of an over-reliance on classical portfolio theory, says one of its top quants
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Finding Volcker rule metrics will be tough, dealers warn
To make the Volcker rule work, regulators will need to be able to spot proprietary trading. But although a range of indicators has been suggested, finding a way to catch prop trading without also catching some market-making and hedging activity won’t...
Inter-affiliate trades face threat from clearing, execution, margin...
Inter-affiliate trades under US rules may be subject to the same clearing, execution and uncleared margin requirements as other derivatives – making them expensive, or even impossible. Dealers are also grappling with how the rules will dovetail with...
US inflation market divided on huge 30-year Tips short
A big short position in 30-year Treasury inflation protected securities backfired at the end of June. Traders say the strategy – driven by the end of the second round of quantitative easing – made some sense, but the size of the bet didn’t. Mark...
Perverse capital
Many banks adjust the value of trades to reflect the possibility of their own default, with the counter-intuitive effect that a rise in their credit spread appears as a profit. Basel refuses to recognise this in bank capital rules, but there is a split...
RBS handed Fed cease-and-desist order over risk failings
Deficiencies in corporate governance and risk stretch back two years
Dealers struggle to develop metrics to spot prop trading
Banks considering a variety of measures to identify proprietary trading and so meet the requirements of the Volcker rule, but none is foolproof, say dealers
Fed aims for summer Sifi regulations
Bernanke says Fed expects to issue proposed rules on Sifi oversight this summer; also 'on schedule' to implement Basel III
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