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October 2018

   
'News' ETD and Cleared OTC Margin Call and Communication Standards and Settlement Processing for the Buy-side 31 October 2018 | Bill Hodgson

The buy-side collaborate to improve the margin call process for OTC and ETD products.
   
'News' Trade Reporting Data Quality and Central Bank Effort Still a Concern 31 October 2018 | Bill Hodgson

A detailed research report into the gathering of OTC and ETD data reveals issues with the work being done by central banks to clean the data, and missing or confused attributes.
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'Articles' Featured Article A Blockchain Grand Challenge: Smart Financial Derivatives 30 October 2018 | Bill Hodgson

The following outlines a few of the major research questions being investigated: some of these are general research problems that affect blockchain/DLT development broadly, whereas others are very specific to financial derivatives, but all of these aspects must be solved, and their solutions combined effectively, to provide efficient and resilient solutions to the grand challenge.
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'Articles' Deutsche Börse and RegTek.Solutions launch pre-validation service for regulatory reporting 30 October 2018 | RegTek.Solutions Feed

The new pre-validation platform will be available to over 2,300 executing entities which are using Deutsche Börse’s ARM (Approved Reporting Mechanism) service. It will add enhanced testing and data quality remediation capabilities, as well as pre-submission validations, for all transactions destined for any of the 25 National Competent Authorities (NCA) to which Deutsche Börse is connected.
26October
   
'Articles' Featured Article Q4 ’18 Key Themes – SIMM and other hot buttons… 26 October 2018 | Bill Hodgson

In this guest post from Liam Huxley the CEO of Cassini Systems considers SIMM, UMR, Systems, Politics, Brexit and 2019
25October
   
'News' Featured News A Pain in the Risk System Vendor Ask 25 October 2018 | Bill Hodgson

 Recently, Aite Group turned to 29 buy-side risk managers to find out what features are most important to them when selecting a risk management system and why.
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'Articles' UK withdrawal from the EU: Changes to PRA Rulebook and onshored Binding Technical Standards 25 October 2018 | The Bank of England Feed

Consultation Paper 26/18
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'Articles' Update to firms on the Bank’s regulatory approach, and firm preparations, for EU withdrawal 25 October 2018 | The Bank of England Feed

Letter to CEOs of PRA-regulated firms from Sam Woods (PRA CEO and Deputy Governor for Prudential Regulation)
   
'News' The Need for Speed - Part II 22 October 2018 | Bill Hodgson

Opening up the market in South Africa: The need for speed part 2
   
'News' Smart Clearing of NDFs via Quantile 22 October 2018 | Bill Hodgson

Is your firm clearing NDFs? What you need is a smart way to transfer risk into a CCP to optimise your netting and margin
   
'News' ESMA Charts Illustrate the Brexit Concentration Risk for Europe 18 October 2018 | Bill Hodgson

This chart shows without question what a disaster it would be if a legal or regulatory barrier is erected down the English Channel (French: la Manche, "The Sleeve"; German: Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Breton: Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Corni
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'News' Basel Committee seeks views on the leverage ratio treatment of client cleared derivatives 18 October 2018 | BIS Feed

Make sure you put in your views on why capital for client clearing is an issue. 
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'News' ESMA data analysis values EU derivatives market at €660 trillion with central clearing increasing significantly 18 October 2018 | ESMA Feed

ESMA data analysis values EU derivatives market at €660 trillion with central clearing increasing significantly

17October
   
'Articles' Featured Article New Studies on an Equities Distributed Ledger Address Volume Concerns 17 October 2018 | Bill Hodgson

Exchange traded products such as futures and equities can show extreme volumes of transactions each day - could a distributed ledger support that level of throughput, given concerns over the complex consensus model for ledgers. Two new studies carry out detailed simulations to find the boundaries of ledger performance and show the way for future technology transformation in the capital markets.
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'Articles' Clearing Incentives, Systemic Risk and Margin Requirements 17 October 2018 | ISDA Feed

Central clearing of standardized derivatives and margin requirements for non-cleared derivatives are two of the basic tenets of global financial regulatory reform.
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'Articles' RegTek.Solutions wins ‘Best Compliance and Regulatory Solution’ Award 11 October 2018 | RegTek.Solutions Feed

REGTEK.SOLUTIONS WINS 2018 FUND SERVICES AWARD FOR ‘BEST COMPLIANCE AND REGULATORY SOLUTION’

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'Articles' Derivatives, the Cloud and the source of truth 10 October 2018 | ClarusFT Feed

Bill: ClarusFT put some distance between their platform built in the cloud from scratch and take a jab at 'legacy' vendors who have a history of software on the ground instead of up in the cloud(s).
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'News' The FCA consults on its approach ahead of the UK’s exit from the EU 10 October 2018 | Financial Conduct Authority Feed

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today published two consultation papers, setting out its proposals in the event the UK leaves the European Union on 29 March 2019 without an implementation period.  It also set out its approach to the regulati
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'Articles' Industry Groups Set Out Impact of Hard Brexit on Derivatives 09 October 2018 | ISDA Feed

ISDA, the Association of German Banks (Bundesverband deutscher Banken), the Italian Financial Markets Intermediaries Association (Associazione Intermediari Mercati Finanziari), the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI), the Danish Securit
04October
   
'Articles' Featured Article The Inside Story of DerivHack | The Beginning of Something Big? 04 October 2018 | Bill Hodgson

The inside story of DerivHack and how the ISDA CDM might be the beginning of something big

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