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04June
     
'Articles' Featured Article EMIR : A Progress Report 04 June 2014 | Bill Hodgson

The problem is that the rules jump straight to the solution rather than defining success criteria for reducing systemic risk in the global capital markets.
   
'Events' Enterprise Collateral 2014 | June 24th/25th | London 03 June 2014 | Bill Hodgson

The Only Event That Brings Together Treasury, Front, Middle and Back Office From Financial Institutions
24-25 June, 2014 | America Square Conference Centre, London, United Kingdom
     
'News' Eurex Cross-Product Margin | Prisma Brochure 03 June 2014 | Byron Baldwin

How does Eurex cross-margin ETD and OTC products yet provide a stable and understanding margin approach, combined with cross-product default management?
   
'News' Eurex / Deutsche Börse Launch Swap Futures in September 03 June 2014 | Bill Hodgson

Competition in the hybrid interest rates market expands later this year.
02June
     
'Articles' Featured Article The Indirect Costs of Central Clearing 02 June 2014 | Mas Nakachi

The all-in cost of participating in the OTC derivatives market is about to go up sharply – either through central clearing, or as a result of the new BIS (Bank for International Settlements) margin requirements for non-cleared derivatives, effective from December 2015
   
'News' The Size of the OTC Market | End Dec 2013 02 June 2014 | Bill Hodgson

The latest BIS report on volumes in the OTC market shows two opposite trends for Rates and Credit derivatives

May 2014

   
'Offers' The Greeks and Hedging Explained | Reader Offer and Sample Chapter 30 May 2014 | Bill Hodgson

I know you think this about garden design in southern Europe, but instead it's the mysterious measurements needed to understand trades with optionality. 
   
'News' Rocket - Launch | The New OTC Space Magazine | Soon 28 May 2014 | Bill Hodgson

A new magazine is coming - "Rocket" from The OTC Space
   
'Articles' Smooth Sailing Ahead? | Future Regulatory Sqaulls To Come 28 May 2014 | Paloma Migone

Regulatory reforms have been at the forefront since the global financial crisis hit nearly six years ago – and it won’t be taking the back seat for a while yet. 
     
'News' New Magazine | Calypso Intelligence 28 May 2014 | Bill Hodgson

Calypso have launched their new magazine "Ci" over at their new site for on-line reading here or sign up for a

   
'Articles' CFTC Examines DCOs and SEFs 27 May 2014 | Sol Steinberg

CFTC Examines DCOs and SEFs
   
'Articles' CCP Feature Comparison Matrix | SIFMA AMF 26 May 2014 | Maria Leontiou

I am quite swamped these days trying to gather all sorts of data on CCPs and their offerings and to my surprise I came across this pretty useful matrix in XLS format, a comparison analysis actually, on this page on the 
   
'News' European CCP Authorisation | May 23rd 23 May 2014 | Bill Hodgson

Two more CCPs have been authorised by ESMA under EMIR.
     
'News' Eurex Clearing records second consecutive landmark day 23 May 2014 | Ricky Maloney

Yesterday Eurex Clearing had a second consecutive landmark day. After 30 IRS trades on Wednesday, including the first USD cleared trades, yesterday was a record volume day.
   
'Offers' The Executive Guide to Enterprise Risk Management 22 May 2014 | Bill Hodgson

Managing a successful business is about pursuing the appropriate business strategy based on the threats and opportunities that exist given the company's financial and managerial capabilities.
     
'News' First USD IRS Trade Cleared at Eurex 22 May 2014 | Ricky Maloney

News Flash: Eurex clears our first USD IRS and also becomes the second largest OTC CCP in Europe.
   
'News' 8th ESMA Q&A on EMIR 22 May 2014 | Bill Hodgson

The ESMA EMIR Q&A has been updated to version 8, the new or modified questions are listed below. They seem to be addressing 'long tail' issues and don't appear to create any new operational implementation details.
   
'Articles' How Ready Are Firms for Mandated European Clearing? | Make Your Voice Heard 20 May 2014 | Bill Hodgson

One of the questions which many in Europe would like to understand, is how ready (or not) firms are to participate in central clearing, especially now that ESMA are working through the regulatory process to begin mandatory clearing.
   
'Articles' Moving from VaR to ES | What Difficulties are Involved? 19 May 2014 | Ben Larah

According to a Risk Magazine article (subscription required), medium-sized financial institutions are going to have a tough time moving from Value at Risk (VaR) to Expected Shortfall (ES) for the purposes of calculating trading-book capital requirements.
19May
   
'Events' Featured Event International Derivatives Week | London 10th June 19 May 2014 | Bill Hodgson

2014 will be an important year for cross-border rules as Europe becomes the next frontier in global regulation.

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