Data Mistakes Cost Dearly with a $6m fine for BNP Paribas and  $850k for JP Morgan.

We all know using notionals to measure the size of the OTC market leads to crazy headlines, so the CFTC has a cunning plan for

On Monday the 10th of July the CFTC published this roadmap that gives a view of the trail leading to Christmas 2019. It might only

Six months to comply for US regulated firms

It amuses me that the CFTC Commissioners publicly criticize their own organisation, on their own website. Sort of like kicking yourself up the backside shouting

In keeping with my passion and theme of 'Chaos to Clarity', I want to decode CFTC's Straight Through Processing (STP) 10 minutes rule which has

In response to the financial crisis that began in 2008, the leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) nations agreed to a series of measures

With regard to systemic counterparty risk reduction the bank regulators' minimum capital, liquidity reserve and margin levels are a major incentive.  The current fine-tuning debate and regulatory rule adjustment

The dust has settled from the initial fall out from retail brokerages going out of business as a result of the SNB's abrupt removal of

  Risk magazine editor Duncan Wood makes a good point in his article The invisible incentives of clearing (subs. required) – the FSB / BIS ignored leverage