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Exchanges woo insurers with futures alternative to OTC swaps
With the price of over-the-counter swaps predicted to increase as new derivatives rules take effect, futures are being touted as an efficient alternative hedging tool, but are they a perfect fit? Blake...
CME to offer CNH futures from February 25; becomes second provider after HKEx launched CNH futures contract last September
Swaps-to-futures switch at Ice – plus hedge fund regulatory changes – behind threefold jump in numbers taking futures trading exam
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If a roll call had been taken at the lectures given by the economist Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago in 1970, it would have shown that, among the 30 to 40 people in the building’s small, boxy lecture rooms, was an outsider carrying a pen...
Exchange of the year: Eurex
When asked whether Eurex is happy with the final text of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (Emir) – which introduces a clearing requirement for over-the-counter derivatives – a spokesperson for the Frankfurt-based exchange gives a one-word...
One size fits none: Industry split over futures and OTC holding periods...
Some listed derivatives have equivalents in the cleared over-the-counter market, but the two product types are subject to different margin regimes – leaving the futures under-margined, and OTC swaps over-margined, critics say. The issue divides US and...
Review of 2012: Basel III starts to bite
Capital and liquidity consumption now comes with a cost, and that started to make itself felt this year. Risk staff look back at a selection of the year’s big stories
Risk USA: Margin for OTC products is too high, says Pimco's De Leon
New rules would see OTC markets over-margined, while futures may be under-margined - and there could be systemic implications
New rules designed to kill OTC market, says European regulator
Central Bank of Ireland adviser says reforms will cause an "Ice Age" in the derivatives market
Going vertical: Dealers mimic futures exchanges
If a clearing business is part of an institution that also makes markets in over-the-counter derivatives, there are lots of things it cannot do. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) summed them up in its final rules on internal business...
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