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Ex CFTC Chief: Facebook's Libra project highlights need for new digital assets regime
Facebook's plans to create its own digital currency raises a number of important questions for U.S. policymakers and highlights the need for a comprehensive response to the rise of digital assets, according to a former chairman of the U.S. agency that oversees derivatives markets.
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German exchange looking for ways to increase order book liquidity
Eurex is preparing to test a "passive liquidity protection" mechanism to encourage more market making in its French and German equity options market.
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Leaving Libor behind
Thanks to evidence of attempted manipulation in key global reference rates along with a steep decline in interbank lending, international standard-setters began talking about the importance of benchmark reforms as early as 2013.
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CFTC explores impact of climate change on derivatives markets
On June 12, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission held a meeting of its Market Risk Advisory Committee to discuss climate-related financial market risks. The committee has no official rule-making powers, but its membership comprises a wide range of market participants and its discussions can have a significant influence on CFTC policymaking.
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People News - May/June 2019
Appointments, promotions and other people news in the derivatives industry
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The EV disruption
How the rise of electric vehicles will create pitfalls and opportunities for the derivatives industry.
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Exchange leaders at IDX stress importance of price discovery
As the derivatives industry gathered at FIA's IDX 2019 conference in London, familiar issues like Brexit remained the regular topics of conversation.
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Top European regulator urges more unified, flexible supervision
EU policymakers are committed to finding a new way forward that balances effective risk-management and financial innovation. That was the primary message delivered by Robert Ophèle, chairman of French markets regulator Autorité des Marchés Financiers, in a keynote address at FIA's IDX 2019 conference in London on June 4.
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It’s about time: G20 to discuss market fragmentation
One of FIA's top concerns in the policy arena is the growing fragmentation of markets. We have warned for many years that this trend will reduce liquidity, especially in markets that depend on crossborder flows, and harm the resiliency of clearing. At long last, it appears that our concerns are being heard at the highest levels of the official sector.
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DLT for derivatives? It’s already happening
While it’s early in the roll-out of many blockchain use cases, there are immediate opportunities for the use of distributed ledger technology in the derivatives markets. Near the top of this list is the management and settlement of collateral, a multi-billion dollar headache for the world’s largest banks.
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