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  • Vendor Consolidation

    On Nov. 28, Sweden's Itiviti and France's Ullink announced plans to merge their technology and market infrastructure businesses.

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  • Australia's ASIC Consolidates Market Integrity Rules

    On Nov. 17, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission published market integrity rules which create a consolidated set of market integrity rules for futures markets and securities markets.

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  • Swap Clearing in China

    On Nov. 20, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission extended no-action relief for Shanghai Clearing House until the earlier of February 2018 or the date on which SCH receives exemption from registration as a derivatives clearing organization.

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  • Chart of the Month

    Open interest in crude oil reaches record levels

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  • Japan Proposes New Rules for HFT

    On Oct. 24, the Financial Services Agency of Japan released draft regulations and supervisory guidelines to govern "high speed trading" in Japanese markets, as mandated by legislation approved in May.

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  • Fed Amends CCAR Calculations to Avert Impact on Client Clearing

    The Federal Reserve has decided to rescind a technical change in the way it calculates the CCAR stress testing calculations for large banking organizations, a decision that averts a major increase in the amount of capital required for client clearing.

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  • Pushback on Fed Proposal

    On Oct. 11, FIA and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association sent a letter to the Federal Reserve expressing "deep concerns" with proposed changes to the capital surcharge imposed on U.S. banking organizations that are determined to be "global systemically important banking organizations."

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  • China Opens Door to More Foreign Investment in Brokerage Industry

    On Nov. 10, China’s vice minister of finance Zhu Guangyao announced several steps to further open up China's financial industry to foreign participation.

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  • Technology-Neutral Regulation

    On Nov. 14, five U.S. financial associations including FIA asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to update its broker-dealer electronic retention Rule 17a-4 by eliminating an obsolete recordkeeping requirement known as WORM (write once, read many) that was first put in place more than 20 years ago.

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  • ICE and TMX Swap Energy Assets in Europe and North America

    On Oct. 27, Intercontinental Exchange and TMX Group announced a complex transaction under which ICE will swap Trayport, a trading platform widely used in European power and gas markets, for two energyrelated businesses owned by TMX plus £350 million ($459 million) in cash.

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