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You cannot have TRY/JPY butterflies that low with TRY/USD flies that high, it didn’t make any sense at all
London-based FX options trader
The problem is the MTF rules are crafted quite generally, and I think there can be some ambiguity
Steven Burrows, senior associate at law firm Fieldfisher
What the IASB indicated in that October Libor paper isn’t what we’ve done in practice today at all
Jessica Taurae, partner at PwC
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Morgan Stanley FX loss leaves ill-feeling, questions in wake
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Margins of error
Clearing house CME reported two margin breaches totalling $79 million in the first quarter of the year. The CME attributed the shortfalls to increased volatility, without identifying either the parties or the positions involved. The bigger of the two breaches, $47 million in size, was the largest since public disclosure began in 2015.
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