The process by which the U.K. will leave the European Union, known as Article 50, is on course to be triggered by the end of March, following a vote in favor of the Article 50 Bill by the British members of Parliament on Feb. 8, endorsed by the House of Lords later in the month after thorough debate.
CONTINUE READINGThe Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation in January selected IBM, Axoni, and R3 to build a distributed ledger to handle certain post-trade processing functions for credit derivatives.
CONTINUE READINGVanguard's head of fixed income derivatives discusses trends in electronic trading and liquidity
CONTINUE READINGSADLY, IT IS MORE COMMON than not to be the victim of a cyber attack.
CONTINUE READINGTrading volume on U.S. options exchanges totaled 4.14 billion contracts in 2015, a 2.9% decrease from 2014.
CONTINUE READINGOn April 22, the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority announced that it fined Merrill Lynch International £13.2 million ($20.5 million) for incorrectly reporting more than 35 million transactions and failing to report another 121,387 transactions between November 2007 and November 2014.
CONTINUE READINGOn Sept. 28, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission provided futures and swaps traders with additional time to comply with new reporting requirements established by the CFTC’s Ownership and Control Reporting final rule.
CONTINUE READINGIn July FIA Asia submitted comments to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on proposed rules for mandatory clearing for OTC interest rate swaps.
CONTINUE READINGThe Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Securities and Futures Commission jointly issued a consultation on introducing the first phase of mandatory clearing and the second phase of mandatory reporting.
CONTINUE READINGOn April 29, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed several changes to its rules for applying the swaps-related provisions of Dodd-Frank to non-U.S. entities that conduct dealing activity in the U.S.
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