Some comments from buy side firms and SEFs on the CFTC's and CCP's differential treatment of economically equivalent swaps and swapfutures are contained here (Risk mag,

Dear all, The CFTC has done it again – CFTC Provides No-Action Relief from SDR Requirements to Swap Counterparties that are not an SD or

SwapClear have published their new fee schedule which remodels the service fees around amounts of trade activity. Above 30,000 trades per year will cost £2.25m,

The SwapClear knowledge centre keeps on giving, the second item on the page below is the 2013 development roadmap for SwapClear, you can reach it

An analysis of trade activity data prior to and post the March 11th Dodd-Frank Act mandatory clearing deadline, published today on DerivSource. Read more here

Dear all, Markit Acquires DTCC Stake in MarkitSERV: http://bit.ly/145hboz The highlights of last week Last minute frenzied activity around the April 10 deadline for Dodd-Frank reporting

If you have some rate swaps sitting idle, why not use the new service from SwapClear to check whether they are mandated for clearing? Click

Putting a spotlight on the challenges presented by Initial Margin algorithm changes at SwapClear and Eurex In recent months, both SwapClear and Eurex have indicated

LCH published a member note (here) regarding "invoicing back" which is component of resolving a default. There are two PDFs, of which the second sets

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