CFTC Designates NFA as SDR Data Recipient The CFTC issued an order authorizing the National Futures Association (NFA) as “a designee to receive access to data maintained by swap data repositories (SDR),” officials say. The NFA is touted by the CFTC as the “only registered futures association (RFA)” actually registered with the commodities regulator. “As… Read More >>
Massad Makes Pitch for New Swaps Data Gathering System
The CFTC is forging ahead with a second major attempt to make swap data reporting “accurate, consistent and timely” as CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad recently stressed in a speech before the 2016 Office of Financial Research (OFR) and Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) annual conference presented by the U.S. Treasury Department. “We have come a… Read More >>
Beware the Next Avalanche, Warns CFTC’s Sharon Bowen
New regulations may require that “all swaps transactions, whether cleared or uncleared” be reported to a trade repository, but more needs to be done, according to U.S. CFTC Commissioner Sharon Y. Bowen In a recent speech at George Washington University Law School, she called for closing loopholes and ending risky practices, as well for as… Read More >>
Markit Lines Up Clients for KY3P Platform
Two Asset Managers Take KY3P Platform Markit, a provider of financial information services and systems, reports that two asset managers — BlueBay Asset Management and Loomis, Sayles & Co. — and a software services company Luxoft are new customers for Markit’s Know Your Third Party (KY3P) platform. The sales for the KY3P platform have been… Read More >>
CFTC Authorizes Eurex Clearing for U.S. Swaps Markets
CFTC Blesses Eurex Clearing U.S. regulator CFTC has authorized Eurex Clearing’s registration as a derivatives clearing organization (DCO), which will allow Eurex Clearing to provide clearing services for swaps for U.S. clearing members, officials say. The authorization makes Eurex Clearing the 16th DCO registered with the CFTC and the sixth registered DCO based outside the… Read More >>
ICE Promotes to Fill Senior Management Posts
ICE Promotes Senior Managers Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), the operator of clearinghouses, data services and such exchanges as the New York Stock Exchange, reports the following senior management moves: Ben Jackson, president and chief operating officer (COO) of ICE Futures U.S., has been named to the newly created post of ICE chief commercial officer, where… Read More >>
SEC and CFTC Reinforce Whistleblower Programs
U.S. regulators the SEC and the CFTC are reaffirming their commitment to make their whistleblower systems more accessible to industry participants and financially rewarding. Most recently, the SEC has given a whistleblower an award of more than $700,000 to “a company outsider who conducted a detailed analysis that led to a successful SEC enforcement action,”… Read More >>
Brady Acquires Temenos’ Energycredit Unit
Brady Hopes Temenos Unit Will Help Broaden Offerings Brady PLC, maker of trading, risk management and settlement solutions for the energy, commodities and recycling sectors, has acquired the Energycredit unit from vendor Temenos Group, officials say. The combination of each’s offerings should help Brady branch out into new commodity asset classes, Brady officials say. Temenos,… Read More >>
Ops Gets on the Blockchain Revolution Bus
Bitcoin, a so-called crypto-currency, may fade before anyone really understands what it was or how it could actually have prevailed in financial services. However, out of Bitcoin’s ashes has risen the humbly named Blockchain technology. The distributed ledger technology that has been propping up Bitcoin has come to the attention of major industry players. This… Read More >>
NSX Officially Re-Launches, Debuts Low-Price Fees
NSX Re-Launches for Equities, ETFs As expected, the National Stock Exchange (NSX) has re-launched trading operations for equity securities and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and reports that it is offering “low-price market access fees,” officials say. The relaunch follows the SEC’s approval on Dec. 14 to resume trading operations, which includes a phased roll-out of all… Read More >>
