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Euroclear Collateral Conference | Materials

March 26, 2013 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

Euroclear have published on-line the entire suite of materials from the recent conference in Paris covering a wide range of topics including their new Highway and related services. Kurt Jarnigan from RBS gave a talk on Enterprise Collateral Optimisation, and John Burke on a new ECB Eligible Baskets CCP being launched from within Clearnet, plus […]

Conference, Paris

Cyprus, Land of Structured Products

March 25, 2013 by Bill Hodgson 2 Comments

Nick Dunbar author of The Devil’s Derivatives, and a recommended read, describes his own encounters with banking in Cyprus: click here

Sapient Tuesday Exchange | Free Drinks & Regulatory Change | April 9th

March 4, 2013 by Bill Hodgson 2 Comments

If you’d like an invitation to come along and talk to your peers about regulatory change, trading, clearing, reporting and futurisation, drop me a line, see link below for background. Tuesday Exchange.

Event

Euroclear Collateral 2013 – Debate

March 4, 2013 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

Is anyone else going to the Euroclear Collateral event? Check out the last session on day 2 – where myself and colleagues put our necks on the block to debate “This house believes that regulatory intervention will deliver a safe and profitable capital markets environment”. Euroclear Bank – Programme.

Understanding Historic VaR

January 21, 2013 by Bill Hodgson 2 Comments

Pretty much all the CCPs are using Historic VaR for their Rates business, as evident in this chart. At a recent event, I pointed out that VaR and methods related to distributions have become key to the future of protecting us all from the dynamics of the capital markets. At this same event with about […]

13th Annual Collateral Management Conference

August 29, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

Come and see me at the Collateral Conference (link here), I’m running a half day workshop on Sept 19th, the agenda includes: 12:00 Registration and Morning Coffee 12:30 Introduction and Opening Remarks from Workshop Leader (Bill) 12:35 The impacts on collateral management from the new regulations (Bill) 13:35 The new legal framework for collateral management […]

Event

TradeTech Video Interview – The Future CCP Landscape

August 29, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

I did a post-panel interview at TradeTech earlier this year, for my pearls of wisdom click here or watch below.

Conference, Event

panel interview, tradetech

The Swaps Ball – At The Dorchester, 5th October

August 27, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

The annual SwapsBall is coming up on October 5th, an event which raises a huge amount of money for charity, and in my experience is a fantastic party. Take a look at the website and consider taking a table. You get a great dinner with dancing afterwards, and during the evening the charity auctions have […]

Event

TradeTech, Nov 22nd in London

August 17, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

I will be attending TradeTech on the 22nd in London, see below for reasons why you might want to also… The last technical details of EMIR are due at the end of September 2012, and the impact of the interaction between EMIR, Dodd-Frank MiFID II, MiFIR and Basel III- CRD IV is gradually taking shape: […]

Event

business, economy