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CFTC approves Sef rules - and eyes block trade controversy
As agency approves long-awaited final rules on Sefs, CFTC staff say they could strip exchanges of freedom to set futures block thresholds
With new rules set to increase use of trading platforms, a group of banks is trying to replace inefficient, manual approval processes with something quicker and easier. By Clive Davidson
Moving NDFs to trade on Sefs could mean less hedging at longer end of the curve, says senior executive at Icap
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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 example, take the letter sent to the Commodity Futures...
Sefs find liquidity comes at a cost
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CFTC: O'Malia on a mission to fix Dodd-Frank flaws
With the end of the agency's marathon Dodd-Frank Act rulemaking in sight, CFTC commissioner Scott O'Malia wants to go back and fix what he sees as mistakes. By Peter Madigan
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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
Futurisation debate shifts to block trading rules
Different block trading thresholds for economically equivalent swaps and futures could hand exchanges a decisive advantage in the ongoing futurisation fight. But some market participants argue the disparity is fair, as do some regulators. Joe Rennison...
CFTC ‘neglect’ of Sef rules angers platform providers
After missing numerous deadlines to finalise the criteria for Sefs, the CFTC will not publish the rules until late April at the earliest, much to the frustration of market participants
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