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July 6, 2022 - Editor
Data Mistakes Cost Dearly Says the CFTC
Data Mistakes Cost Dearly with a $6m fine for BNP Paribas and $850k for JP Morgan.
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February 13, 2018 - Editor
The OTC Derivatives Market Size is about to shrink via a CFTC proposal
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
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July 19, 2017 - Editor
The CFTC Roadmap and Christmas 2019
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
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February 14, 2017 - Editor
The CFTC Grants a No-action Letter Giving 6 Months to Comply with Uncleared Margin Rules
Six months to comply for US regulated firms
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September 1, 2016 - Editor
The CFTC Argues With Itself Over the Bilateral Margin Rules
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
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August 4, 2016 - Editor
Chaos to Clarity – The CFTC STP 10 Minute Rule
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
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October 27, 2015 - Editor
OTC Derivatives Regulatory Reforms and the changing role of Middleware platforms
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
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March 31, 2015 - Editor
Targeted clearing mandate exemptions could reduce systemic counterparty risk
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
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March 6, 2015 - Editor
The Swiss franc blip: time FX leverage limits moved from flat percentage to risk-based?
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
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March 4, 2015 - Editor
Will leverage ratio cause an FCM concentration crisis?
Risk magazine editor Duncan Wood makes a good point in his article The invisible incentives of clearing (subs. required) – the FSB / BIS ignored leverage