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A&O Seminar on Dodd Frank and EMIR

May 23, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 2 Comments

Allen and Overy provided one of their lunchtime seminars on Monday with a comparison between Dodd Frank and EMIR. Below are my notes from their presentation and a PDF of the slides. You should follow up with the very knowledgeable A&O staff on this: EU: damian.carolan@allenovery.com US: deborah.north@allenovery.com US: john.williams@allenovery.com Key points: Entity definitions for […]

Republican Right Battles the Republican not so Right

January 13, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

I wrote in this post about the effect this years US elections might have on Dodd Frank, and I then read this piece (subs required) in the FT on how the ‘Tea Party Right’ want to prevent the relatively moderate Mitt Romney from winning the nomination – and they continue this behaviour, the Republicans will […]

Larry Tabb says implementation of Dodd Frank will be pushed back to 2013 or 2014

January 9, 2012 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

Larry has really stuck his neck out on this years predictions – I find it hard to believe that we won’t be seeing a big uptake of clearing this year, there’s too much momentum at the CFTC to move forward on the rules. The full set of predictions is here (free registration required). Quote from Larry: […]