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Mandatory Trading
The CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight held a public roundtable on July 15 to discuss the “made available for trade” process for determining which swaps should be subject to the CFTC’s mandatory trading requirements.
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Regulatory Dialogue
In July FIA Asia submitted comments to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on proposed rules for mandatory clearing for OTC interest rate swaps.
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Reg Report Card
On June 8 FIA Europe published a review of the cumulative effect of European derivatives reform, setting out the core issues and offering potential solutions to encourage further debate.
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Direct Market Access
TradingScreen and Object Trading announced a partnership in June that will allow TradingScreen’s clients to leverage the direct market access platform operated by Object Trading.
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Leap Second
The FIA Market Technology Division played a key role in helping the industry prepare for the leap second event on June 30, gathering information from exchanges around the world and providing guidance to members and the markets as a whole.
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CCP Risk Managment
The Australian Securities Exchange has selected Nasdaq’s Sentinel Risk Manager solution to manage real-time risk across its two clearinghouses.
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Commodity Markets
FIA Europe joined several other trade associations representing financial institutions and commodity firms in sending a letter to the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Securities and Markets Authority raising concerns about several aspects of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II that could “severely affect” commodity markets.
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Limiting Speculation
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers, the French regulator, in July implemented position limits for agricultural commodity derivatives.
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Index Futures
Exchange-for-physical transactions have been custom-tailored over-the-counter products until now, but Euronext is about to change that.
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Energy Trading Tech
BGC Partners said in April that it plans to sell Trayport, the energy trading platform that is part of GFI Group, the interdealer broker that BGC bought earlier this year.
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