SIX, the financial exchanges, data, services, and systems provider, is expanding its multicurrency swaps offering via BME Clearing, a Spanish central counterparty clearing house (CCP). This is an alternative to the E.U. requirement that firms use a European CCP for the clearing of Euro-denominated interest rate swap (IRS) transactions. SIX owns BME Clearing. The European… Read More >>
CFTC Chairman Unveils Swaps Reform Agenda 2.0
Swaps regulatory reform is the focus of a recent white paper/report, “Swaps Regulation Version 2.0: An Assessment of the Current Implementation of Reform and Proposals for Next Steps,” co-authored by CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo and CFTC Chief Economist Bruce Tuckman. The report was unveiled at the annual meeting of the International Swaps and Derivatives… Read More >>
