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CFTC Commissioners Expiry Dates | Not a Job For Life

May 20, 2013 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

Being a limey I forgot to think that the 5 CFTC commissioners don’t stay in their jobs for life, here’s when they are due to either retire, or be extended: Scott O’Malia 15th April 2015 Jill Sommers 13th April 2014 (but is planning to resign early) Bart Chilton 13th April 2013 (He remains in office […]

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CFTC, News
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Rearrange: Shutting Horse Door Stable After Repository Bolted Trade Access Data The

April 12, 2013 by Bill Hodgson 1 Comment

Over at the BIS website is a new paper (here) from the CPSS / IOSCO committees on how they see access to data in Trade Repositories being handled, and mainly the purposes for which they wish to use it. Their goals include: Assessing Systemic Risk Macro assessment by organisations such as the IMF or World […]

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BIS, CPSS / IOSCO, Futures and Options, OTC Derivatives, Swap Data Repository, Trade Repository
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Optimizing the Cost of Customization for OTC Derivatives End Users

March 28, 2013 by Jon Skinner 0 Comments

Optimizing the Cost of Customization for OTC Derivatives End Users For those of you who haven’t seen it I recommend the article with the above title in the paper at the attached link (starts on page 69) published by the Institute for Financial Markets and written by Sean Owens from Woodbine Associates (a research-based consulting […]

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Client Clearing, CME, Dodd Frank, Fixed Income, Initial Margin, IRS, Netting, News, SwapClear
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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 […]

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Congress, Dodd Frank, News
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Scott O’Malia Christmas List – Speech at the Edison Electric Institute

December 20, 2011 by Bill Hodgson 0 Comments

Original source here. Scott is one of the five commissioners at the CFTC, and has a republican background, meaning he will challenge and push back on some areas that he thinks Gary Gensler is over-stepping the intention of Dodd Frank. See also this piece about barriers to implementing Dodd Frank by me. My Summary: Scott […]

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CFTC, Dodd Frank, News, Regulation
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