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January 21, 2014 - Editor

One thing which is guaranteed to get me on my soap box is poor customer service. When a company displays a complete lack of care

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December 19, 2013 - Editor

We alerted you to the launch of a new business CloudMargin a while back, they have published their first white paper setting out some thoughts

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December 18, 2013 - Editor

Time has come to move on to EMIR Trade Reporting – Part 2 (EMIR Trade Reporting Part 1 is here). 

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December 16, 2013 - Editor

As 2013 draws to a close, I summarise the major changes in what has been a momentous year in the Swap Market. Trade Reporting Mandatory

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December 15, 2013 - Editor

Henner Brüner is a Consultant in Capco’s Capital Markets Frankfurt practice, he explains why "quad party" or "physical segregation" is desirable for buy-side clearing clients

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December 13, 2013 - Editor

This Risk article (subs.) lays out in more clarity the Volcker rule impacts and in particular market-making and CVA trading. Given the rule runs to 900 or

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December 12, 2013 - Editor

My interest in writing this article was sparked by the 11 December press release from TrueEx announcing trades executed on its Portfolio Terminations and Compactions

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December 9, 2013 - Editor

There are two Japan-related CFTC no action relief (NAR) deadlines approaching: December 21st 2013: the NAR expires which temporarily allows US banks' guaranteed non-US affiliates

Featured image for “Will the CFTC disrupt Japan domestic IRS liquidity? | Japan update”

December 9, 2013 - Editor

There are two Japan-related CFTC no action relief (NAR) deadlines approaching: December 21st 2013: the NAR expires which temporarily allows US banks' guaranteed non-US affiliates

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December 4, 2013 - Editor

On November 7th ESMA authorized four Trade Repositories to offer their services to Europe's entities and ESMA's updated version of EMIR implementation timeline showed the 12th