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A Guide to Swap Reporting Under Dodd Frank | Roles and Dates

April 18, 2013 by Bill Hodgson 1 Comment

Over at the Futures Industry website, Davis Polk have built a table which sets out who reports what and when, also see the footnotes, dates can change. FI Magazine.

Davis Polk | Swap Reporting Who and When?

April 2, 2013 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

From DP: One key provision of the Dodd-Frank Act requires reporting of swap transactions. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has finalized detailed regulations in this area that are being implemented in phases. In the March issue of Futures Industry magazine, Annette L. Nazareth and Gabriel D. Rosenberg outline the CFTC’s OTC reporting compliance timeline. Read more >

An Asset Manager’s Guide in the post-Dodd Frank era

March 27, 2013 by Maria Leontiou 1 Comment

The law firm Davis Polk put together an informative memo which provides a description of the issues facing asset managers that trade and clear swaps in the post-Dodd Frank world. Apart from the background section, the memorandum discusses several key swap regulatory topics, highlighting practical considerations and potential opportunities for asset managers.The focus is on near-term actions that asset managers should […]

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Limbo Update from WSJ

October 23, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

The story below was posted on the WSJ earlier which clarifies the Limbo story here from yesterday. The implication being that firms executing swaps from now until the compliance date, must back-load into clearing, something no-one had anticipated. If any of you experienced the back-loading challenge around CDS into the DTCC Trade Warehouse, or indeed into […]

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Davis Polk: Key compliance date scenarios for Dodd Frank

July 31, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

Now that the CFTC defined what they mean by a Swap, DP published a useful PDF showing the compliance dates for the CFTC rules / Dodd Frank Act, based on your firms category such as Swap Dealer, non-US Swap Dealer, or exempt. Pretty useful as a summary. Download the PDF here.

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Davis Polk 2nd Anniversary Dodd Frank Tools

July 18, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 2 Comments

DP have celebrated the 2nd anniversary of Dodd Frank with two jolly info tools: An interactive bamboozlement graph thing here, showing the interconnections between the regulations And one of those super large info graphics on the mountains of paper resulting from the Dodd Frank Act here. via Welcome to Davis Polk Regulatory Resources™.

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Dodd-Frank Progress Report | Davis Polk | May 2012

June 1, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 1 Comment

If you’re in Operations, it’s good news, you (should) have a todo list with 1,118 things on it – so get some more headcount, right away. Dodd-Frank Progress Report | Practices | Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

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Regulatory progress update from Davis Polk

February 1, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

Are you in Operations? If so you’d better have your list of 1059 tasks ready prepared, see below. The full progress report PDF is here, original source page at Davis Polk is here. Target is mid 2012 to have all the rules in place, so get busy with your gantt charts.

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Dodd Frank Progress Report from Davis Polk

January 4, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

Davis Polk have put out their summary of progress on Dodd Frank, you can download the PDF from their site here or direct here PDF. Their headlines: As of the end of 2011, deadlines for half of Dodd-Frank’s rulemaking requirements have passed. 25.5% of the passed deadlines have been met with finalized rules. Major rulemaking activity this […]