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Second annual FFK Fun Run aims for more runners (and silly dressers)
Futures For Kids began in 2008 on behalf of the listed and cleared derivatives industry as a way to give something back. At its founding, the organization set an ambitious goal: raise £3.0 million to benefit to disadvantaged young people around the world.
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CCPs and clearing members agree: There are no easy answers
When it comes to clearinghouse risk issues, the cleared derivatives community is united in agreement on the importance of protecting CCPs -- from the clearinghouses themselves to brokers, commodity trading firms and member clearing firms.
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How regulatory coordination can fight market fragmentation
The cleared derivatives industry currently faces a dichotomy of increasingly interconnected global markets but increasingly localized regulation.
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OCC returns $110 million to exchanges after SEC rejects capital plan
The Options Clearing Corporation, the Chicago-based clearinghouse, will return $110 million of the $150 million contributed by its shareholder exchanges after its capital plan was rejected by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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The electronification of interest rate swap trading
Matthew Scott is head of global rates, securitized assets and currency trading on the U.S. taxable bond trading desk at AllianceBernstein, an investment management firm with more than $500 billion in assets under management. He has been trading interest rate swaps for 13 years and has seen tremendous changes in his business, especially since the financial crisis. A large part of the changes came about as the result of the regulatory response to the crisis and the requirement that most swap trades be cleared.
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Eurex builds out clearing solution for interest rate swaps
Eurex Clearing is starting to gain traction in its efforts to attract more business to its clearing service for interest rate swaps. Clearing volumes in the first two months of the year were running at about three times the level of a year ago, reflecting the continued onboarding of new clients and several enhancements to the clearing service.
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Tying the knot: New directions in capital markets M&A
Market infrastructure is hot again.
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People News: February/March 2019
Jean-François Grégoire, Frank Drouet, Mel Gunewardena, Andrew Busch, Gabriel Benincasa, Jay Clayton, Etienne Amic, Wilfred Yiu, Charles Li, Calvin Tai, Roger Lee, Bipin Patel, Romnesh Lamba, Roland Chai, Nic Maalouf...
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Trader-backed school invests in the future of Cambodia
Can one school change a country? Trevor Gile thinks so. He is one of the co-founders of the Liger Leadership Academy, a secondary school in Cambodia with an innovative and ambitious approach to education.
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CEO Insight: Energy boom shows the power of global markets
A recent news article caught my attention and highlighted the power of our markets to change the human condition. While a U.S. story, it has implications for all markets globally. A few months ago buried in the business section of the newspaper read a headline—the U.S. had become the world’s largest producer of crude oil and a net exporter of petroleum for the first time in 75 years, thanks to an unprecedented boom in oil production over the last decade.
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