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'Articles' Featured Article Asian CCP Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities 15 February 2015 | Alison King

Whilst those of us in Europe and America have been focused on the immediate challenges of Dodd Frank (via the CFTC) and EMIR, in the rest of the world these new regulations pose an even more complex web to navigate.
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'Articles' Gearing up for non-cleared margin 12 February 2015 | ISDA Feed

In a recent ISDA survey of derivatives users, the introduction of margin requirements for non-cleared derivatives was h
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'Jobs' Featured Job Information Architect / Business Data Modeller 10 February 2015 | Bill Hodgson

A real budgeted role in London UK, in an easterly direction
09February
   
'News' Featured News MAC swaps: not yet needed by dealers 09 February 2015 | Jon Skinner

MAC swaps are touted by some as a major contribution to swap market liquidity but how is the project progressing?  Tod Skarecky of ClarusFT takes a look in his latest ClarusFT blog post.   My sense is banks focus is elsewhere for now.
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'Articles' Reports of the Death of Securitization are Greatly Exaggerated* 09 February 2015 | John Kiff Feed

Thanks to a boom in collateralized loan obligation (CLO) issuance and solid demand for asset-backed securities (ABS) backed by vehicle loans, U.S. securitization markets are doing just fine.
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'Articles' Featured Article EMIR Changes the Collateral Management Servicing Game: Costs and Considerations 08 February 2015 | Fabrice Tomenko

Since the financial crisis began in 2008, the environment for market participants has become increasingly complex due to regulatory change under EMIR. There is a greater focus on counterparty risk mitigation and as a result, it is anticipated that more margin will need to be pledged to cover both cleared and uncleared derivatives. This has pushed collateral management to the top of the financial industry’s agenda.
   
'Articles' 5th Annual APAC Collateral Management Conference 06 February 2015 | Samantha Hodgson

Returning for the fifth time, Collateral Management 2015 will bring you latest industry insights on regulatory reporting and challenges, initial margin requirements, buy side reactions to regulations and collateral optimization.
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'Articles' Turn Out the Lights, The Party’s Over 05 February 2015 | Streetwise Professor Feed

What party, you ask? The one with the mosh pit at LaSalle and Jackson in Chicago.  The one held in the building that’s in the background image of this page.
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'Articles' SmartStream Acquires Algorithmics Collateral Assets 04 February 2015 | Securities Finance Monitor Feed
SmartStream Technologies, the Financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions provider, today announced that SmartStream has acquired assets related to software, sales and support of IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) Algorithm
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'Articles' Featured Article TABB Fixed Income Conference: tackling reduced trading liquidity in corporate bonds and OTC 04 February 2015 | Jon Skinner
Following January 2014's TABB Fixed Income conference: "BREAKING RATES", the Thursday January 29th TABB conference "PERFECT STORM NAVIGATING THE CONFLUENCE" held promise of answering the question of whether the market has dealt with the marked withdrawal of dealer market making capacity from the cash and derivatives markets in response to Basel III constraints.
 
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'Articles' Dodd-Frank after Four Years 02 February 2015 | George Bollenbacher

Last July marked the fourth anniversary of the passage and signing of the Dodd-Frank Act, so it is appropriate to reflect on the two sections of the DFA most of interest to OTC Space readers, Title VII on derivatives, and Section 619, the Volcker Rule.
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'Articles' Featured Article Overcoming the Cost and Complexity of Central Clearing Mandates 01 February 2015 | Jim Myers

Examining industry attitudes towards changes in clearing, Sapient Global Markets’ latest survey reveals three significant themes: regulatory uncertainty, the cost of clearing operations and implementing suitable technology. To relieve some of these pressures, more than half of those surveyed also indicated positive interest in the establishment of purpose-built market utilities. Download your copy to find out more.
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'Articles' 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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'Articles' A Devastating Critique of the Worst of Frankendodd: The SEF Mandate 01 February 2015 | Streetwise Professor Feed

January 2015

   
'Articles' 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.
   
'Events' 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?
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'Articles' Giancarlo: scrap CFTC Sef rules and start over 30 January 2015 | Risk Magazine Feed

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'Articles' Freewheeling Freelancers Rule 30 January 2015 | Penny Davenport Feed

Freewheeling
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'News' Final risk mitigation standards published by IOSCO 30 January 2015 | Energy Trading Regulation Feed

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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'Articles' Updated U.S. and European Securitization Charts 29 January 2015 | John Kiff Feed

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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