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Capital Optimization
Eurex Clearing in November launched its Prisma Margin Estimator, a free service that allows clearing members and their clients to estimate initial margins for futures, options and swaps. The service was designed in collaboration with OpenGamma, an open source risk systems developer, and will run in parallel with the clearinghouse's existing margin calculator.
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Portfolio margining
LCH.Clearnet is gearing up to launch Spider, a new portfolio margining tool that will reduce margin requirements for interest rate derivatives by looking for offsets between listed and over-the-counter positions.
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Dodd-Frank Fix
On Dec. 4, President Obama signed into law a transportation bill that includes a provision removing a barrier to the sharing of data on swap trading.
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MiFID Delay
A one-year delay to the implementation of MiFID II/MiFIR is widely anticipated following a number of presentations and petitioning by regulatory officials at the European Securities and Markets Authority and the European Commission.
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Commodity Arbitrage
Trading Shanghai versus London in the copper market? Sucden Financial wants to help.
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Market Innovation
Small and mid-sized banks now have an electronic marketplace to lend and borrow short-term funds.
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Mandatory Clearing
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission on Dec. 14 published final rules mandating clearing for over-the-counter interest rate swaps.
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Leverage Limitation
On Dec. 11, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted by a 3-1 margin to issue a proposed rule limiting how much investment companies such as mutual funds and exchange-traded funds can invest in derivatives such as futures, forwards and swaps. The proposed rule also contains a number of requirements aimed at addressing the risks of holding derivatives in investment portfolios.
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Data - January 2016
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Gallery - FIA Asia 2015
Great networking at the opening reception at the 11th Annual FIA Asia Derivatives conference.
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