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 >>
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 >>
Is the Fed Too Cozy with the Big Banks?
The secret recordings of Carmen Segarra, a former Federal Reserve bank examiner stationed at Goldman Sachs, have caused a quite stir since they were aired last week in a segment on the popular podcast “This American Life.” The tapes not only allege wrongdoings at Goldman, but also instances of the Fed, the firm’s primary supervisor, handling the… Read More >>
