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CME issues white paper on Clearinghouse Default Protections
CME Group has issued a white paper outlining its views on how much funding clearinghouses should contribute to their default protections.
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InfoNet 2014
The state of the Industry. Stuck in the mire or looking ahead to new opportunities?
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InfoNet 2014 - The state of the Industry. Stuck in the mire or looking ahead to new opportunities?
This edition of InfoNet explores whether the industry is stuck in the mire or looking ahead to new opportunities. It inlcudes reports on three panel sessions covering the connectivity of global markets, the cost of compliance, and the current state of the industry, an interview with Nigel Foster, former Global Head of Derivatives at BlackRock and Head of all market facing activities, and a roundtable on collateral management.
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FIA Global requests segregated margin be excluded from Basel III capital requirements
FIA Global sent a letter to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision this week urging the committee to consider how segregated margin is treated in the leverage calculations that determine bank capital requirements.
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Is there a future for indirect clearing?
Of all the areas of impending European regulation, the provisions relating to the indirect clearing of swaps and futures are proving to be among the most challenging for the centrally cleared derivatives industry
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News Briefs November 2014
FIA Global announced a new service that will provide information on clearinghouse rules worldwide and help market participants assess the risks of clearing.
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International regulators issue guidance on Financial Market Infrastructure recovery plans
International regulators have issued guidelines on recovery plans for financial market infrastructure, part of a broader effort to prevent a disorderly failure of key infrastructure entities such as derivatives clearinghouses. The guidelines encourage financial market infrastructure entities to consider how they would handle a default by a major market participant, how they would replenish their financial resources, and other scenarios that could prevent such entities from continuing to provide critical services to the markets.
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Pimco Calls for CCP Standards to Protect Client Assets
Pimco issued a white paper in October calling for global standards for derivatives clearinghouses in order to maximize the protection of client assets and reduce systemic risk if a clearinghouse were to fail.
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FIA issues statement on H.R. 4413, CFTC Reauthorization Bill
FIA today issued the following statement in response to the House Agriculture Committee’s voice vote on H.R. 4413, a bill which reauthorizes the Commodity Futures Trading Commission through September 2018.
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Letter to the EC - Written submissions as a follow-up to the Public Hearing of 10 March 2014 on the Leverage Ratio
In a letter to the European Commission, FIA Europe welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the Public Hearing on the Liquidity Coverage Requirement and the Leverage Ratio that the European Commission organised on 10 March 2014.
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