Trade Associations



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December 11, 2013 - Editor

The ISDA Standard Initial Margin Model (SIMM) Committee recently published a white paper outlining their initial thoughts as to how to develop a standardized IM

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December 11, 2013 - Editor

According to this IFR story, BoNY Mellon has cut its OTC clearing business due to "market and regulatory factors that will limit our ability to

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October 30, 2013 - Editor

Risk.net conducted a poll of clearing members, a big majority of whom think CCP membership will become uneconomical under newest proposed risk-based and leverage ratio

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September 2, 2013 - Editor

Dear all, The TOP Stories of last week: Craig Pirrong picks apart recent BIS study Craig Pirrong tears apart the logic behind a recent BIS

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September 1, 2013 - Editor

The agendas for this year's ISDA conferences look very interesting. Links can be found below: New York (on September 12th) London (on September 19th) Sydney (on

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August 26, 2013 - Editor

Dear all, the "Dazzle" had a one-week hiatus – but is back this week in full swing and with loads of worthy information. Have a

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August 12, 2013 - Editor

Dear all, The TOP Stories of last week: Updated EMIR Q&As from ESMA ESMA have updated their EMIR Q&As bringing the document now to 51 pages but

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August 8, 2013 - Editor

An intelligent article explains the poor progress made in getting Non Financial Companies, and the very large FCs to be prepared by using the relevant

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August 5, 2013 - Editor

On page 31 of the newly updated ESMA FAQ on EMIR the  world of segregation models at CCP's for clearing OTC derivatives finds a much-anticipated clarification

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August 5, 2013 - Editor

Dear all, The TOP Stories of last week: ETD reporting delayed but TR reconciliation on track As reported last week, ESMA now officially told a Financial