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CFTC and SEC facing legal anxiety over cost-benefit analyses
Cost-benefit paralysis
Sponsored statement: Absa Capital
The new paradigm for hedge funds
South African tax ruling may just be stay of execution, brokers warned
Stay of execution?
South African banks grumble over credit pricing discrepancies
To charge, or not to charge?
Profile: Standard Bank CRO on rogue trading, liquidity and lending
“We do not have a liquidity issue”
ICB report: banks face higher costs, lower ratings
Ring-fence furore
Profile: Credit Suisse's algo team on automating OTC markets
Automating OTC
Right Laplace, right time
Right Laplace, right time
Dangerous adaptation: the evolution of risk
Dangerous adaptation: the evolution of risk
CCIL: The benefits of fragmentation
Fragmentation benefits
LCH.Clearnet eyes November launch for NDF clearing
London-based CCP is set to launch clearing for NDFs in six currencies in mid-November, having shelved plans for options clearing while banks discuss settlement-related issues with regulators
FIA-Isda group runs rule over Sef credit check plans
The OTC market still does not know how to provide certainty that a trade will be cleared - but an FIA-Isda meeting in New York gave attendees a chance to look at what is on offer
Market-consistent equity risk premiums
Market-consistent equity risk premiums
Industry to make 11th hour plea over Emir scope
The EU council text of Emir could be voted through next week, but a group of industry associations will plead for a late - and controversial - change
Audio: Hedge funds face funding squeeze under Vickers report recommendation
UK-based hedge fund management companies could have problems accessing working capital if a provision in the ring-fencing chapter of the Independent Commission on Banking (Vickers report) stands
UK’s FPC changes tack on capital requirements
Loosely worded document does not clarify FPC’s demands on banks; new regulatory body asks for more powers in new legislation
HFT is changing the ecology of the forex market, says BIS committee
Bank for International Settlements report on high-frequency trading in the forex market is lukewarm about recent initiatives to monitor HFT, and recommends further analysis by regulators and participants
Video: Industry experts clash over whether to publish liquidity ratios
A Basel III conference panel disagree over whether banks should publish liquidity coverage ratio and net stable funding ratio estimates now, even though the final rules are not yet agreed
Bank of England's FPC seeks to unlock Basel III tool-kit
Systemic risk committee at the Bank of England calls for power to use tools - such as liquidity and leverage ratios, and margin standards - to influence systemic risk
HFT is changing the ecology of the FX market, says BIS committee
Bank for International Settlements report on high-frequency trading in the FX market is lukewarm about recent initiatives to monitor HFT and recommends further analysis by regulators and participants
Risk.net poll – UK Treasury is right over ECB lawsuit
Respondents to a Risk.net poll support the UK Treasury’s decision to sue the ECB over its proposal to require CCPs clearing euro-denominated contracts to be legally incorporated in the eurozone
Canadian OTC derivatives repository unnecessary, say market participants
Critics argue a Canadian OTC derivatives repository would lead to fragmented and inconsistent data