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Build Your Own Algo
Two fintech startups, QuantConnect and Quantopian, have extended their trading solutions into the futures markets, providing users with easy-to-access tools to build their own automated futures trading strategies.
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Best Practices in Customer Margin Standards
The derivatives industry has played a key role in allowing market participants to safely and efficiently manage their risks during normal market conditions and stress events for over 100 years
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Build Your Own Algo
Two fintech startups, QuantConnect and Quantopian, have extended their trading solutions into the futures markets, providing users with easy-to-access tools to build their own automated futures trading strategies.
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The Four Levels of Financial Regulation
Financial regulators use many techniques to carry out their responsibilities.
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Testing Blockchain
Euroclear, one of the world's leading settlement houses, is pressing ahead with plans to introduce blockchain-backed gold products, with the goal of delivering reduced counterparty risk, lower capital requirements and increased operational efficiencies.
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Shorter Settlement
On March 22, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a rule that will shorten the standard settlement cycle for most securities transactions to T+2 from T+3. Broker-dealers will be required to comply with the shorter settlement cycle beginning on Sept. 5.
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Project KISS
On March 15, Chris Giancarlo, the acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, announced a three-pronged plan to renovate derivatives regulation that he called Project KISS, which stands for “keep it simple, stupid.”
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Rulebook Revamp
The Japan Securities Clearing Corporation has implemented several changes to its clearing rules for listed derivatives to enhance its clearing services and to introduce practices adopted by other major global clearinghouses. These include changes to the account structure—both omnibus accounts and individual segregated accounts will now be available for clients. In addition, the clearinghouse has revised its margining rules and its collateral management framework.
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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.”
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