Focus
February 2015
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Featured Article
The Game Has Changed for Outsourcing
01 February 2015 | Bill Hodgson
SS&C GlobeOp has been a provider of processing services for OTC products for 15 years. I met with Tom Kirkpatrick and Alexandra Gillespie to discuss how they faced the challenge of regulatory change with the added pressure of many clients relying upon them to update their processing platform to support their requirements.
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A Devastating Critique of the Worst of Frankendodd: The SEF Mandate
01 February 2015 |
January 2015
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2015 Annual ISLA Conference
30 January 2015 | Samantha Hodgson
The international Securities Lending Association, together with the Conference Advisory Group and this year's conference Co-Chairs Mark Whipple from Goldman Sachs and Philip Morgan from Nomura International have published the conference agenda for the 24th Annual Securities Finance and Collateral Management Conference.
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Deluge or Drought in Liquidity Markets? | A One Day Conference on Feb 6th
30 January 2015 | Bill Hodgson
Got your tickets for Deluge and Drought yet?
'News'
Final risk mitigation standards published by IOSCO
30 January 2015 |
IOSCO have published their final document on the risk mitigation standards to be applied to non-cleared OTC derivatives, which can be found here.
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Updated U.S. and European Securitization Charts
29 January 2015 |
Here are my latest securitization issuance charts for the United States and Europe. Shortly I hope to add Australia, Canada and Japan when the data becomes available.
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ESMA publishes opinion on draft RTS on the clearing obligation for interest rate swaps
29 January 2015 |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published an Opinion on the Draft RTS on the Clearing Obligation on Interest Rate Swaps.
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Vendor Support for Dec 1st Bilateral Margin Rules
29 January 2015 | Bill Hodgson
First big platform to announce coverage of the requirements for Dec 1st
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Eurex Clearing CRR Netting Opinion
29 January 2015 | Byron Baldwin
Eurex Clearing has implemented documentation compatible with the market standard client clearing documents and has published UK and German Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) opinions.
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Featured Article
Conduct Risk
25 January 2015 | Robin Poynder
Regulators raised the need for cultural change in financial markets behaviour during the aftermath of the 2008 crash, however behaviour/conduct risk have long been an implicit part of financial institutions’ risk management programmes under Basle II and Basle III.
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ISDA/FOA Addendum | Do you speak legal?
25 January 2015 | Maria Leontiou
Maria points out a candidate for the longest single derivatives sentance award.
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Longevity Risk Transfer Market Primer*
25 January 2015 |
My interest in longevity risk transfer markets goes back to a 2006 International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper on the limits of risk transfer markets, an April 2012 IMF Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) chapter on longevity risk transfe
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US considers delay to OTC swap rules
23 January 2015 |
CFTC discussing margin rules reprieve with other US regulators
Bill: a 2nd clue that the Dec 1st date for the bilateral margin rules may move.
'News'
ESMA adds Athens Exchange Clearing House to its list of authorised CCPs
22 January 2015 |
ESMA has today added Athens Exchange Clearing House to its list of authorised CCPs under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).
