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Porting Problems
Customers may not be able to find a new home for their cleared derivatives if their clearing member goes into default, several industry participants warned the Commodity Futures Trading Commission at an April 25 meeting of the CFTC’s Market Risk Advisory Committee.
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Managing a Default: The Eurex Clearing Approach
Sponsored Content: Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, policymakers’ and legislators’ focus on the topic of clearinghouse resilience, recovery and resolution has been intense, with many experts and commentators warning of yet more severe consequences for the financial system should a central counterparty ever have issues or even go into default
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Rule 1.31
In January, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a proposal to update and modernize Rule 1.31, which sets out certain recordkeeping requirements for futures commission merchants, commodity pool operators, trading firms that are exchange members, and other market participants.
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Know Your Ticker
In April, ICE Data Services, the rapidly growing data services arm of Intercontinental Exchange, announced the launch of a new reference data solution for clients that use ICE’s futures exchanges.
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Trump Nomination
On May 2, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Jay Clayton to serve as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The nomination was approved in a 61 to 37 vote, with several Democrats joining their Republican colleagues in supporting the nomination. He was sworn into office on May 4.
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Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be: On CCPs and Banks
A central counterparty, viewed from an economic perspective, is a “commitment mechanism.” The ultimate function of a CCP is to assure performance of contract obligations between its members. They do so by becoming substituted counterparties to all trades submitted for clearing—becoming, in effect “the buyer to every seller and the seller to every buyer”—thereby ensuring the performance of open contracts.
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Expanded Access to Commodity Derivatives
The Securities and Exchange Board of India announced it will issue unified licenses to brokers and clearing members to transact in both commodity derivative and equity markets
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Cooking with Gas
Liquefied natural gas is coming of age as a globally traded commodity, and the world’s futures exchanges have taken note.
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City Against MND: Inaugurating the David Setters Trophy
Members of the futures industry have a long history of rising to challenges placed before them.
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Beyond the Waterfall
As risk management continues to become an increasing priority for global markets, central clearing has emerged as a proven, transparent solution for managing counterparty risk and reducing systemic risk.
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