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Axoni readies blockchain platform for equity swaps
Service aims to smooth swaps reconciliation – ‘the Holy Grail’ – for Goldman, Citi and other backers
Esma probes blurry line between FX vendors and venues
Forex liquidity aggregators resemble trading platforms – but are not regulated as such, critics charge
Europe’s regulators grope for value of software
In the US, the cost of software is not taken out of capital. Europe is fumbling for something similar
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Esma proposal may limit short-selling
Reporting requirement would bar securities without LEIs from being used in financing transactions
Big Figure
Paper cuts
Japanese banks Norinchukin and Nomura have switched to a new system for calculating counterparty risks, which cut trillions of yen from their leverage exposures. The effects on risk-based capital, however, were different for each. The two banks adopted the Basel Committee-mandated standardised approach for measuring counterparty credit risk in the first quarter of this year.
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