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An insightful A-Z on the OTC Clearing Revolution

June 1, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

I spoke at TradeTech this week and told a story of Alice (a Project Manager) and Bob (Head of Collateral Management) and how they prepared for the coming regulatory changes. I didn’t take the title literally, although as you’ll see I used some artistic license. The key message from the presentation was to engage with […]

ccp, clearing member, collateral management, derivatives, otc derivatives

New York Course on Central Clearing, Regulatory Change, Legals and Risk, June 11-13th

April 5, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

In February I ran a public course via Marcus Evans to teach the new clearing ecosystem, and regulatory change. The attendees feedback can be seen here in a video made during the event. We are running the same event in New York with a 2+1 format, the first two days are delivered by myself with […]

Video review of the Marcus Evans CCP training in February

March 16, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 2 Comments

Some of the attendees make their comments about the course I ran in February, along with my own thoughts about the event. We are likely to run this again in other countries, let me know if you’re interested. The agenda we provided lasted three days, two days on clearing and regulatory change, the third day […]

Greek Eclairs: Deliverables into restructuring events

March 6, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

Deus Ex Macchiato » Deliverables into restructuring events.

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Happy trainees

February 29, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

Last week I successfully delivered a three day course on central clearing to 11 individuals, with modules on Legal and Risk provided by Anna Iversen & Adam Ward at Amunet Partners, and Ed Selby at Lothbury Associates, respectively. You too can enjoy a full understanding of Clearing for OTC products, plus FpML or Rate Swaps […]

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TEDx WallStreet – Tickets

January 30, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

A TED event is coming to the capital markets in New York, see http://tedxwallstreet.com/ for details. For anyone unfamiliar with TED.com, here’s their description: TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become […]

Conference, Event, TEDx

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CFTC TV Christmas Special

December 15, 2011 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

Sadly this isn’t on Sky so you can’t Sky+ it (for non-UK people it’s a DVR). Tune in to the CFTC Christmas ’3 Rules for Santa’ special: Details here. Tues 20th at 14:30 UK time, you can watch and listen, woo! Sadly I’ll be at the OTC Space HQ (the Space Port we call it) […]

CFTC, Dodd Frank, Event

cftc, otc

Commodities & Derivatives Exchange World 2012 – Istanbul

December 14, 2011 by Bill Hodgson 1 Comment

Dear Reader, As a speaker at the above event I can invite my clients and colleagues to join the event at a preferential rate of 15% off the current rate. All you need to do is click this link: https://secure.terrapinn.com/V5/rCalc.aspx?E=4504&C=1779DFTR And it automatically calculates the reduction for you. I also appreciate that because the 3 events are […]

Conference, Event, News

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Downloads Page now Open

December 10, 2011 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

The downloads page was previously password protected, but the relevance of that for now is over. It contains the materials from the recent NCMF event, plus materials from an Osney conference from a while back. Some useful material there.

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