In case you did not already know, last week the European regulatory authority ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority) approved 4 of the 6 applicants as official Trade Repositories (TR’s) for derivatives trade reporting under EMIR regulations (official press release). We do expect the remaining 2 to be approved shortly…more on that below. This means […]
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StandardiZation, StandardiSation. Why can’t we all just agree??? With the Dodd-Frank SDR reporting inching slow ahead to full steam in the US, how have we fared thus far? Truthfully? Not so well! Why? Well one does not need to go any further than to take a peek at what’s on the CFTC’s mind. And what
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I’m not big on New Year resolutions or on predictions. But in the case of Dodd-Frank and EMIR in Europe it’s hard to resist. The die has been cast and SDRs are a real thing now. Setting aside for the moment the master strokes about what DF and EMIR are supposed to be about, let’s
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The CFTC issued some breaks by laying out a series of Dodd Frank “No-Action” letters. The biggies: CFTC issued a No-Action letter to prevent firms from crossing into Swaps Dealer status. The rule states that any firm doing more than $25 Million in business with “Special Entities” such as a Federal, State or Local utility
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CFTC sent back home to do its homework. The District Court tossed the position limits ruling. Don’t get me wrong. I really feel for the gauntlet that the CFTC has been put through in terms of getting out new rules. But the District Court found that the organic legislation did not give the CFTC the
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DTCC got some good news this week with the preliminary approval of the for interest rate, credit, foreign exchange and equity asset classes. Suspiciously missing from this is DTCC’s GTR (Global Trade Repository). GTR is where the “other commodities classes” are supposed to go. This means that, as of this writing, there is only one approved
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Last week ICE announced that it is registering its products as Futures. ICE has always traded “look alike” swaps that acted and behaved just like futures. As look-alike contracts, ICE was able to stay out of the Commodity Exchange Act and the CFTC. Dodd Frank changed all of that. So ICE seems to have adopted
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Dodd Frank | Trade Vault and DTCC “Gotchas” The compliance deadlines are looming. Some of the bigger Gotchas that keep coming up: Data Is Not In Our Trading System. The CFTC wants (XYZ Data Point). We don’t have that in our trading system! Case in Point: Option Expiration Time Zone. Obscure, yes. So much so
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It’s been a while since we’ve posted. And there is a reason for that. Dodd-Frank is finally coming to town. With the final rule for Market Classification hitting the Fed Reg on May 23d, and the final Swaps Definition hitting the deck today…. the clock has started ticking. In the commodities business it is
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