A senior analyst with Aite Group, David Weiss will be hosting a panel on packaged trading, “Taking the Whole Package,” for the DerivOps NY conference, sponsored by Financial Technologies Forum (FTF), and taking place Nov. 6. He took time from his schedule to answer FTF News’ questions about package trades and the pending changes to… Read More >>
FTF Premier Special Report: Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank
The Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank battle went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and had major ramifications for financial services firms that rely heavily on third-party software, services and infrastructure technologies. In this in-depth report, FTF News focuses on twists and turns of a legal action that caught the attention of heavy… Read More >>
Derivatives Markets Fear Fragmentation as Regulators Clash
Financial services firms that participate in derivatives markets on both sides of the Atlantic have found themselves treading difficult water for the past year or so, as regulators have struggled to harmonize cross-border market structure rules and regulations. Industry observers say European and U.S. regulators are on the same page as to the importance of… Read More >>
18 Top Firms Sign ISDA Stay Protocol
A long-debated measure to curb systemic risk and avoid messy defaults like the one that befell Lehman Brothers in September 2008 went into effect last week, when 18 major banks agreed to sign the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s (ISDA) Resolution Stay Protocol. The ISDA Stay Protocol allows regulators to force firms with active derivatives… Read More >>
O’Malia Sets the Agenda for ISDA
Scott O’Malia, the relatively new CEO for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), has been on the job for “some five weeks,” and he has been busy. FTF News readers will remember that O’Malia was until recently a rather vocal and active CFTC commissioner who among other accomplishments brought attention to many of the… Read More >>
JPMorgan Targets ‘Too Big To Fail’ CCPs
Do central counterparty clearing houses (CCPs) take seriously enough the suggestion — made by many analysts and market participants — that they might become “too big to fail?” That question has hung in the air for years now, ever since post-crisis regulatory reforms assigned CCPs a key role in derivatives markets. Attempts to provide an… Read More >>
Will OTC Reforms Bring Back Data Silos?
Oddly enough, regulations meant to bring clarity to voice-based over-the-counter derivatives could inadvertently create new data silos for many firms, says Marc Carletti, executive vice president, global banking and financial markets, BT Global Services. I spoke to Carletti for a magazine story that will be featured in the Fall 2014 edition of FTF News magazine… Read More >>
G2 FinTech Teams with Advent to Target CBR
G2 FinTech, provider of the TaxGopher tax analysis and compliance software, and Advent Software, maker of Geneva portfolio management system, are joining forces to help prime brokers comply with Phase 3 of the cost-basis reporting (CBR) tax requirements of the Internal Revenue Service. New CBR rules have been taking effect over the past two years… Read More >>
Uncleared Swaps Hit With Steep Margin Increases
U.S. regulators unveiled rules for derivatives on Wednesday that could make margin requirements for uncleared swaps 40 to 45 percent higher than cleared transactions, and could lead to a host of operational and legal difficulties for firms trading in them. The proposed rules establish the minimum amount of collateral that financial firms would have to… Read More >>
Survey: Firms Keeping Bilateral OTC Trading
Despite the regulatory push for cleared and executed over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, the bilateral OTC market shows no signs of disappearing, according to a survey done by InteDelta, a specialist risk management consultancy. From April to June 2014, InteDelta completed a global survey of derivatives market participants to assess the impacts of regulatory reforms upon the… Read More >>
