As expected, the SEC has voted to propose new derivatives rules that would limit leverage and other risks for mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and other registered investment companies in the derivatives markets. After a 90-day comment period, the commission is likely to move forward on the new rules. New rules are needed, the commission… Read More >>
EBS Direct Uses FIX 4.4 for Application Links
EBS Direct to Use FIX 4.4 API EBS BrokerTec, the electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business group of interdealer broker ICAP, reports that end-users can connect to its FX platform — EBS Direct via a FIX version 4.4 application programming interface (API). The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol for electronic trading is overseen… Read More >>
DTCC Wants Global Framework for Sharing Swaps Data
Post-trade services and infrastructure provider DTCC would like to see the start of an international discussion about a framework for the global sharing of data about swaps transactions in the wake of federal action to remove a Dodd-Frank Act provision that some saw as an impediment to swaps data sharing globally. In a rare moment… Read More >>
BNP Paribas Securities Services to Use SimCorp’s Platform
BNP Paribas Securities to Use SimCorp’s Dimension Platform BNP Paribas Securities Services reports that it has implemented the SimCorp Dimension system to streamline accounting processes for its clients. The firm has implemented the SimCorp Dimension platform to manage its integrated accounting offering “as well as other services in its comprehensive product suite,” according to SimCorp… Read More >>
CFTC Targets the Op Risk of High-Speed Trading
The CFTC last week unanimously proposed new rules to cut risks related to high-speed trading via the algorithms used by designated contract markets (DCMs). Some analysts say the rules will give the regulator more tools to deal with this key aspect of derivatives trading. However, others caution that the regulator should not put forth rules… Read More >>
CFTC Mulls Fixes for the Op Risks of Innovation
The CFTC is keeping an eye on the operational and technology risks that may hinder IT advances in key commodity, futures and derivatives markets, and will be responding, says Timothy Massad, CFTC chairman, in a keynote address this week before the annual meeting of the World Federation of Exchanges in Doha, Qatar. In particular, Massad… Read More >>
ISDA Pushes for a Derivatives Product ID Standard
Derivatives trading advocate the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has launched a symbology project intended to provide an industry-wide, open-source standard to help all derivatives facilities such as trading venues, clearinghouses, repositories and other infrastructures meet regulatory needs. The new industry data project is charged with developing an open-source standard derivatives product identification system… Read More >>
European Regulator Pushes for More OTC Margin and Collateral Requirements
(Editor’s note: This is the second installment in FTF News’ two-part news analysis [click here to read part one] on the changing regulatory environment for derivatives trading and processing in Europe.) The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is urging more collateral and margin management requirements as detailed in a recently published set of recommendations… Read More >>
Europe Moves to Clarify OTC Derivatives Regulations
(Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on the changing regulatory environment for derivatives trading and processing in Europe. Click Here for Part II – European Regulator Pushes for More OTC Margin and Collateral Requirements While the U.S. is looking toward the next phase of regulatory reform for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets,… Read More >>
