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Bucking the trend: Derivatives market liberalisation in China
In contrast to regulatory efforts in the US and Europe, China’s lawmakers are pushing for greater liberalisation of domestic derivatives, as Isda’s Jing Gu writes
New rules on over-the-counter derivatives are set to have a significant impact on the insurance industry. The rules, the European Market Infrastructure Regulation in Europe and the US Dodd-Frank Act, will...
Post-crisis regulation tends to be spoken about in pretty cold, impersonal terms – the pressure on bid-offer spreads or return-on-equity, for example. It’s easy to forget there is another type of...
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